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Title
"Witch Doctor and Apprentice, Livingstonia", Malawi, ca.1910
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1910
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
Full length photograph of a Witch Doctor and his apprentice. Both men are likely of the Ngoni people and both are wearing animal skins and carrying spears. The man on the right wears a feather headdress. The Ngoni people are an ethnic group living in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia, in east-central Africa. The Ngoni trace their origins to the Zulu people of kwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Rev Donald Fraser (1870-1933). Rev Donald Fraser, the Scottish missionary, was born in Argyllshire, Scotland, the son of a Free Church minister. In his youth Rev Fraser helped found the Student Volunteer Movement in Britain and the World Student Christian Federation before beginning missionary service in Malawi with the Free Church of Scotland. He worked in Malawi from 1896 until he returned to Scotland in 1925. He was first posted to Ekwendeni and later Embangweni. Rev Fraser worked closely with the Ngoni people.
Type
image
Format
1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier
impa-m68525 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS4-1-028.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68525
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS4-1-028.jpg
Subject
Medicine
Manners and customs
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
Africa
Malawi
Source
GB 237 CSWC47/LS4/1/28 [File]
Relation
Donald Fraser of Loudon LS4/1
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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