| Summary: |
Photographs taken during Alexander Sandilands' missionary work in Bechuanaland [Botswana]. Dates and numbers written on the reverse of the photographs by Ian Sandilands relate them to incidents in Alexander Sandilands' 1928 correspondence (see MS380813/2/2): "Mission house and wagon" [view of Maun mission compound taken at Christmas 1927]; "The chief, Dichwanyane, Kasika (Mashubia tribe)" [chief seated, village in background]; "Village in Northern Ngamiland: a man doing some blacksmithing for himself"; "Native blacksmith at work"; "The native school at Kasika"; "One of four or five houses that comprise the camp at Kasane (the Berrels')"; "Loaded wagon" [wagon in foreground, cattle in background]; "Getting an ox down for innoculation" [wagon in background]; "Innoculating an ox"; "The Mababe flats"; view of Scotch cart passing through thicket; "A 'pan' in the middle of a mopane tree forest" [view of pond]; "Taken the day before we reached Maun on the homeward trek" [view of oxen pulling load]; exterior of Maun mission; stick insect; "The Kirk Scalin"; native congregation seated outside; canoes with native boatmen; "The kitchen, put up last year" [Maun mission compound]; Alexander Sandilands and African standing in front of car, Johannesburg; "Some of the church women preparing thatch, here, for the roof of our house"; "The gauze room where Ian [Sandilands] was born" [Maun mission compound].
|
