The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

letter from J.H. Hutton to Henry Balfour

caption:

Aka nose flutes

medium:

letters

person:

Balfour/ Henry Nevill/ G.A.

production:

person:	Hutton/ J.H.
date:	1922?

acquirer:

person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum:	J.P. Mills Box (not numbered)

text:

Kohima

text:

nd. 1922?

text:

Dear Balfour,

text:

I have sent off three Aka nose nose flutes collected by Capt. G.A, Nevill for me in the the Aka country. I am trying to get him to get me a double octave dafla flute with a central mouthpiece SKETCH. If you could let me know in half a dozen words anything interesting about the Aka flutes it might encourage him. He is not an enthusiastic collector, I fancy.

text:

I sent you a postcard about the Angami bull-roarer 2.22. I will send the article itself in a box with the stolen statues, which by the way I shall be glad to get rid of. They bring me stomach ache, riot, murder, thunderstorms and every sort of petty misfortune.

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