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"Tumutumu Warriors and Chief". Group portrait of adult males wearing tribal dress and carrying spear-like weapons. The Tumutumu mission (in the Kenia sphere) administered to the Chuka and Mwimbi tribes, two sections of the Kikuyu people. The Chuka numbered about 15,000 and the Mwimbi numbered about 25,000. In 1908 Kabandango was the biggest chief in the Chuka district and Kianbati the biggest chief of the Mwimbi district. Often, once a mission site had been set up in a particular region, tensions between the missionaries and the Chief tribesmen would flare up and so one of the first duties by the leading missionaries (Rev. Henry Scott and Dr. John Arthur) would have been to visit the local chief in an attempt to settle any differences.
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