Mother and Daughter, Kikuyu, Kenya, August 1926

Kikuyu Types. Daughter & mother [listed objects include] string bag, cultivating knife, stool, cooking pot, strap, firewood, sweet potato slaws." Portrait of mother and daughter sitting outside thatched hut, surrounded by various cooking utensils. The Kikuyu Mission had been founded on a temporary site by the Imperial British East Africa Company in 1891, before moving to Kikuyu territory in 1898, under the Rev. Thomas Watson. Located on the ‘lower shamba’, the site stands 12 miles from Nairobi, at a distance of approximately 342 miles away from the coast. The Church of Scotland assumed control of the Mission in 1901. ❧ "A Series of Photos illustrating Life and Work at Kikuyu. August 1926. Rev W.B. Stevenson.