Class portrait, Mihecani, Mozambique, ca.1925

"Marta at back. Miss Macnab". Group portrait of a sewing class. Their teacher, Miss Macnab, sits to the right of the image. Miss Margaret Barbara McNab arrived at Mihecani in 1916. She opened and ran the boarding school and worked at the mission for many years. Mihecani station was established in the Alto Molocue district of Lomweland, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique], in 1913, and was situated near the Namuli Mountain. It was known as the children’s mission because the Sunday Schools of Scotland financially supported it. ❧ From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique]