1928 photographs (relating to correspondence)

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 m...

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Archive & Special Collections MS 380813/4/2 Open

Order number: MS 380813 Box 3
Date(s) of creation: Dec 1927-Nov 1928
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id MS_380813.4.2
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with MS 380813 Box 3
callnumber MS 380813/4/2
callnumber_txt MS 380813/4/2
callnumber-sort MS 380813/4/2
prefix_number 2
title 1928 photographs (relating to correspondence)
scb_date_creation Dec 1927-Nov 1928
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 22 photographs
format Archive
description 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].
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by SOAS, University of London
language English
language_search English
scb_finding_aids Handlist available
scb_related_material For Alexander Sandilands' 1928 correspondence, see MS380813/2/2
hierarchy_top_id_raw MS 380813
hierarchy_sequence MS_380813.004.002

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