“Bride price – a safeguard against capricious divorce, is paid. Even an old grandfather like this old man may buy a young girl. This however changed as the young folk gained in education & so in power. But the women always, by & large, seemed happier than the men. Is this because their lives were occupied with service?” Portrait of an old man crouching on the ground, possibly due to arthritis. The Kioja family of the Mwimbi lived near the Chogoria mission. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80539
- Dates
- 1922
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 12.4 x 8.9 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Chogoria Eastern Province Kenya
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Kenya
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-97124637-1.tif
- Rights
- For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. manuscripts@nls.uk
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/de906ea8064d03c39e6f5d89c0b76ddf
