Photograph of a Witch Doctor at Tumutumu in Kenya. The Witch Doctor is to the front of the picture wearing a head dress he is squatting in front of a man to whom he is administering a treatment. A number of people are gathered round watching and there is a small round thatched hut in the background. This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to the Kikuyu Mission in Kenya, which was set up by Church of Scotland missionaries. Hospitals were established by Scottish missionaries in Kikuyu in 1908, in Tumutumu in 1909, and in Chogoria in 1922. The missionaries also introduced the Presbyterian Church to the area. The Kikuyu are Kenya’s most populous ethnic group.
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