Photographs by Rev R Elliot Kendall
Groups include: choir entering Kunming church [Yunnan]; Miao girls in costume; Kop'u [Go-p'u] woman with grandsons; Miao women with parasols; Miao school children. People include: elderly Kop'u [Go-p'u] woman; woman walking through street with washing hanging out to dry; boy selling newspapers; two...
| Order number: |
MMS Box 1197b |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
c 1939-c 1951 |
| Level: |
File |
| Format: | Archive |
| Order number: |
MMS Box 1197b |
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| Summary: |
Groups include: choir entering Kunming church [Yunnan]; Miao girls in costume; Kop'u [Go-p'u] woman with grandsons; Miao women with parasols; Miao school children. People include: elderly Kop'u [Go-p'u] woman; woman walking through street with washing hanging out to dry; boy selling newspapers; two young Christian boys; Chinese "coolie" [indentured labour] 'Weining'.
Events include: wedding procession, Kunming [Yunnan].
Activities include: Miao preacher and missionary's wife [Ruth Kendall] vaccinating children against smallpox; working in paddy field; building motor road to Chaotung; school sports. Places or buildings include: memorial archway, Kunming [Yunnan].
Also includes: mountainside grave [of Sam Pollard].
Prints taken by/received from: Rev R Elliot Kendall - many of which are reproduced in his books "Eyes of the Earth" and "Beyond the Clouds". |
| Previous numbers: |
MMS/13/20/06/40 |
| Extent: |
25 silver gealtin prints |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Copyright: | Copyright held by Methodist Missionary Society/Kendall copyright. |
| User restrictions: | For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance |
| File number: |
40 |
| Format: | Archive |