Miss Mary Taverner on a river trip, Peru, ca. 1947

Black and white lantern slide showing Peruvian Inland Mission missionary Mary Taverner in a flat bottomed wooden boat, sitting under a canopy made from reeds. The figures of two other missionaries can be seen under the canopy behind her. Three Peruvian boatmen pose with wooden poles inside the boat, wearing matching shirts, trousers and hats. The boat is near the bank of a river, with tropical greenery in the background. Mary Taverner, a qualified nurse, sailed for Peru in 1935 and was in charge of the Lamas Bible School after it opened in 1939. This slide comes from a collection created by the Peruvian Inland Mission, an evangelical mission started in 1930 by Miss Annie G Soper in northeast Peru, which was administered by the evangelical interdenominational mission, Regions Beyond Missionary Union from 1948.