Gourd

Gourd
Gourd
1992/16/1

1850-1900 / Ministers, Preachers & Associates / Other / Wood / Woodwork / World Parish
Wood, carved and painted
mid to late 1800s

This decorated gourd shows missionary Thomas Birch Freeman (1809-1890) preaching in Africa. As a Methodist missionary, he set up schools and agricultural projects and promoted the anti slavery cause. Freeman was the son of an African father and an English mother.

See also the other objects with a Birch Freeman connection in the Online Collection.