Image / Female missionary seated under parasol with African Chief, Zambia, ca.1917

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Title: Female missionary seated under parasol with African Chief, Zambia, ca.1917
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1917
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: Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Council for World Missions
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description: Chief Kazembe with a female missionary [Mabel Shaw] and attendants Mbereshi, Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia]. Possibly 1917. Possibly taken by "F H H" [Francis Hawkins (1863 - 1936), Foreign Secretary and former Director of the LMS] during a deputation. Kazembe and the missionary are seated, the former in robes with ornate jewellery. 3 attendants stand behind, 1 holding a parasol. Mabel Shaw established and ran the girls' boarding school at Mbereshi (later known as the Livingstone Memorial School) between 1915 and 1941.
Type: image
Format: photographs
printing-out paper, 9 x 6.9 cm.
Identifier: impa-m2570 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CWM-04-10-076-041
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2570
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CWM-04-10-076-041.jpg
Subject: Heads of state
Indigenous populations
London Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period: circa 1917
Place: Africa
Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)
Zambia
Source: SOAS/CWM/LMS/AF/PHOTO/08/076/041 [File]
Relation: Council for World Mission/London Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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