IDNO

P.74496.

Description

Place

E Africa; Tanzania; Lake Nyasa; Mpanda [?Nyasaland]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Schmidt, Hans

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre 1905

Collection Name

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This print was found in envelope now numbered C450/ which was found in Bay C Drawer 39.

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “E Africa; C Africa; ?Tanzania; ?Zambia; ?Malawi; ?Makasa; ?Nyasa [?Nyasaland]”, but the below reference indicates that the photograph was taken in Luhemba, Tanzania. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 5/13/2013]

Bibliographical Reference: The Catholic Encyclopedia records that a White Fathers Mission was founded by Father Lechaptois in June, 1889, at Mponda, Nyassaland. This region passing under British control, the missionaries moved to Mambwe between Nyassa and Tanganika in 1891, but, finding the region desolated by the slave-hunters, they proceeded to Lubemba, a high plateau to the west where the Congo rises. In December, 1894, Fr. Van Oost settled at Kayambi in Mpanda, with permission of the Chief Makasa, but was expelled by Makasa's suzerain, Chiti-Mukulu. Fr. Dupont, however, succeeded in founding a permanent station there in July, 1895. [Source: www.newadvent.org/cathen/11172b.htm]