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Title
Wedding at Domasi Church, Malawi, ca.1920-1929
Creator
Chisuse, Mungo Murray, Photographer, Malawi, fl. 1900-1929
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920/1929
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
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
Description
"Wedding of 'Rossie' and Henry Chimponda at Domasi Church, Nyasaland." ❧ Photograph of a wedding party standing in a church doorway, three white missionaries stand behind. The bride and groom both wear white and she holds a bouquet of flowers. To the left stands the minister and on either side stand a number of guests. The three white guests are, possibly, Miss Low, Mr Bowman and Miss Muir who all worked at the Domasi mission during this time. ❧ The Domasi Mission was founded in 1884 by Rev. Alexander Hetherwick (1860-1939). It is one of a number of important missions in Southern Nyasaland and takes its name from the largest river that flows into Lake Shirwa [Chilwa] on the western shore. It is situated north of Blantyre near Mount Zomba. The station was central to the medical work in the area, and trained girls in industrial and domestic work. Mr Hetherwick was an accomplished linguist and translated the New Testament in to the Yao language and wrote manuals on the Yao and Nyanja languages. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 15.8 x 11 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75641047-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78712
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75641047-1.jpg
Subject
Bowman, F. W., Missionary worker, Malawi, fl. 1921
Low, Miss, Missionary Worker, Malawi, fl. 1921
Ceremonies
Church architecture
Group portraits
Weddings
Time Period
circa 1920/1929
Place
Africa
Domasi
Malawi
Southern region
Source
Acc.7548/F/4 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75641045 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
Photographs from various mission fields collected by Dr. Stevenson
image/tiff

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