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Title
Male Group with Reed Mat, 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
Contact the repository for details.
The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description
Black and white lantern slide showing a group of six men and boys on a path next to a river. A rolled up reed mat lies in the path, which one of the men sits next to. Equipment can be seen (a bedroll) laid down further up the path. One man wears a dark pill-box hat. One man with his back to the camera appears to have a tool placed down the cloth wrap that is tied around his waist, which may be a chisel or a knife. It is possible that these men and boys are part of the Carrier Corps in 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-LS13-64.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78558
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSWC47-LS13-64.jpg
Subject
Men
Boys
Armed forces
Group portraits
Time Period
1914/1918
Place
Africa
Malawi
rivers
Source
CSWC47/LS13/64 [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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