French mission party of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) in Northern Rhodesia: François Coillard and Jeanmairet in the background, Waddell on the left, Middleton on the right, Elise and Christina Coillard in the middle. The african people are the Sotho evangelists with their wives: Léfi and his wife, Esaïe, Aaron and his wife Ruth. François Coillard was the first missionary of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) who went in Barotseland to evangelize the Lozi people. He worked in this region from 1878 to 1904. Photograph published in 1887 by François Coillard in the photo album named "Vues du Zambèze".
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 12.5x17.5 cm 19x24 cm (sup.) photographs
Société des missions évangéliques de Paris, SMEP (Paris evangelical missionary society) Travel Missionary work Missionary Artisan missionary Indigenous lay worker
Time Period
1884
Place
Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) Western (Zambia) Zambia
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