Controlling locusts, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1930

“Locust ‘swalting’.” Landscape view showing numerous individuals smoking out locust. There were plagues of desert locust arriving annually in the region until the Desert Locust Control Service managed to control the breeding grounds, in the Arabian peninsula, in the late 1940’s. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.'蝗虫烟熏防控（Locust ‘swalting’）'：本景观影像展现了多名民众以烟熏法驱离蝗虫的场景。在1940年代末，沙漠蝗灾防控署（Desert Locust Control Service）成功管控阿拉伯半岛的蝗虫孳生地，此前该地区每年都会爆发沙漠蝗灾。 ❧ 本影像取自阿奇博尔德·克莱夫·欧文博士（Dr Archibald Clive Irvine，1893-1974）的私人藏品，展现了乔戈里亚传教站初创时期的风貌。该传教站于1922年在肯尼亚山（Mount Kenya）附近建立，由欧文博士主持运营，为丘卡族与姆温比族民众提供服务。