The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

letter from J.H. Hutton to Henry Balfour

caption:

in New Delhi; jews harps

medium:

letters

person:

Balfour/ Henry

production:

person:	Hutton/ J.H.
date:	6.2.1930

acquirer:

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

text:

New Delhi,

text:

6/2/1930

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Dear Balfour,

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I hope the fifth case, the one that got lost in the railway, turned up all right by the "Venice" and had not been looted.

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I see from an old paper in the A.S.B. that Mikir, and some others, jews harps are said to be played two at a time the pair giving double notes, and that the Assamese use iron jews harps of their own manufacture. I will ask Mills if he can get specimens, but I rather doubt the double jews harps yarn though I know the Aos get them in pairs.

text:

J.H. Hutton

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