Scenes of daily life of natives and a foreign missionary in Malawi, [s.d.]

Photo album of scenes of daily life of natives and a foreign missionary in Malawi, [s.d.]. Appeared to have been taken by a missionary, it has 66 images of the daily life of chiefs, slaves, men, women, children, iron workers, hunters, witch doctors and the missionary himself. Each page including the back of the front cover and the front of the back cover has three photographs, all in black and white. All photographs have captions in ink. It appears from the captions that most of the photographs were taken in Malawi which was then known Nysaland. It can be implied from the presence of a photograph of the grave site of Bishop MacKenzie (1825-1862) in an overgrown jungle that these photographs were not taken before 1862. It also includes a photograph of "Ngombi Sazi, Livingstone's personal friend". Some sections of this album have headings such as "A native industry: exceedingly ancient ironworkers", 'A Lakeshore industry of fishermen", "Native religion: the witch doctor", and "Missionary work". Its red cloth binding is faded and appears to be water damaged and soiled. Its spine is missing except for a small tail. Its cover has the title "Sweet memories".

本相册记录了马拉维（Malawi）当地原住民与外籍传教士的日常生活场景，未标注具体拍摄日期。该相册疑似由一名传教士拍摄，内含66张影像，涵盖酋长、奴隶、男女老少、铁匠、猎人、巫医（witch doctor）以及传教士本人的日常生活图景。包括封面衬页与封底衬页在内，每一页均配有三张黑白照片，所有照片均配有手写墨水批注说明。从批注内容可知，绝大多数照片拍摄于当时名为尼亚萨兰（Nyasaland，原文拼写疑似笔误）的马拉维地区。从一张拍摄于茂密丛林中的麦肯齐主教（Bishop MacKenzie，1825-1862）墓地的照片可推断，这批影像的拍摄时间不早于1862年。此外，相册还收录了一张题为"利文斯通的私人挚友恩戈姆比·萨齐（Ngombi Sazi）"的照片。该相册部分章节配有主题标题，包括"本土产业：传承久远的铁匠行业"、"湖滨产业：渔民生计"、"本土信仰：巫医"以及"传教士工作"。相册采用红色布面装帧，现已褪色，存在水渍污损痕迹；书脊仅存下端一小截，封面印有标题"甜蜜回忆（Sweet memories）"。