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Soga, Tiyo, 1829 - 1871

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Portrait of Tiyo Soga

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305N
Scope and Contents A carte de visite albumen print portrait measuring 53 x 73 mm (oval). The print is mounted as the frontispiece to: Chalmers, John A (1877), Tiyo Soga : a page of South African mission work, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot. The half-length portrait shows Tiyo Soga dressed in European clothes and seated beside a table with a book in one hand.Soga (1829-1871) was the first black South African ordained as a Christian minister. Tiyo Soga's father was a counsellor in the Ngqika branch of the...
Dates: 1865
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