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Title
Initiation ceremony for the Rev. J N Ogilvie, Tumutumu, Kenya, 29 September 1920
Date Created and/or Issued
1920-09-29
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
“Dr Ogilvie being instated member of Kiama.” Group portrait of the Members of the Kenya Kiama, a council of elders with legislative and judicial powers. Rev. James Nicoll Ogilvie (1860-1926) was the convener of the Foreign Mission Committee and an ex-Moderator of the General Assembly, in 1920 he toured the Church of Scotland missions, in British East Africa, and at Tumutumu he was honoured by local elders when he was made a member of the Kiama ❧ This image is from an album chronicling the time that Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) spent at Tumutumu (1919-1921) and some of the early years at Chogoria.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 7.3 x 9.8 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-97121679-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-81928
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-97121679-1.jpg
Subject
Ogilvie, J. N. (James Nicoll), 1860-1926
Ceremonies
Customs (social)
Leaders (people)
Time Period
1920-09-29
Place
Africa
Central Province
Kenya
Tumutumu
Source
Acc.12016/5 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 97121677 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Mission and family photographs taken in Tumutumu, Kenya, 1919-1922
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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