"A mutilated victim of Wemba savagery, Livingstonia", ca.1910

Photograph of a man squatting on the ground outside a thatched hut. The man has lost both of his hands and his nose.; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Rev Donald Fraser (1870-1933). Rev Donald Fraser, the Scottish missionary, was born in Argyllshire, Scotland, the son of a Free Church minister. In his youth Rev Fraser helped found the Student Volunteer Movement in Britain and the World Student Christian Federation before beginning missionary service in Malawi with the Free Church of Scotland. He worked in Malawi from 1896 until he returned to Scotland in 1925. He was first posted to Ekwendeni and later Embangweni. Rev Fraser worked closely with the Ngoni people.

Photographer: Unknown

Filename: imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS4-1-020.tif

Coverage date: circa 1910

Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960

Type: images

Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity

Archival file: impaunpub_Volume7/1469.url

Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom

Geographic subject (country): Zambia

Format (aacr2): 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.

Geographic subject (continent): Africa

Rights: Contact the repository for details.

Part of series: Donald Fraser of Loudon LS4/1

Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk

Subject (lcsh Keyword): War wounds; Tribes

Date created: circa 1910

Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject (aat genre): exterior views

Format (aat): lantern slides

Legacy record ID: impa-m68517

Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources

File: GB 237 CSWC47/LS4/1/20

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930.