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Title: Shaving a Head, Malawi, ca. 1914-1918
Creator: MacKay
Date Created and/or Issued: 1914/1918
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: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
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The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
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Description: Black and white tinted lantern slide featuring a soldier from the King's African Rifles shaving the head of a man squatting on the ground. The two men are in front of a thatched hut, with the soldier's equipment laid out on the ground. The soldier is in uniform, whilst his companion wears a white garment. It is possible that the man having his head shaved is a new recruit to the King's African Rifles. This slide comes from a set on the activities of the King’s African Rifles battalions in Nyasaland. It was originally held by the Church of Scotland, and generated by J.W MacKay.
Format: lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
lantern slides
photographs
Identifier: IMP-CSWC47-LS13-11.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78512
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSWC47-LS13-11.jpg
Subject: Armed forces
Head shaving
Soldiers
Military
Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles
King's African Rifles
Group portraits
Time Period: 1914/1918
Place: Africa
Malawi
military areas
Source: CSWC47/LS13/11 [File]
Relation: Church of Scotland Slide and Visual Collection. Nyasaland King's African Rifles (CSWC47-LS13)
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

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