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...

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Order number: MMS Box 1197b
Date(s) of creation: c 1939-c 1951
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: MMS Box 1197b
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