The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

letters from J.P. Mills to Henry Balfour

caption:

Arrangements for Balfour's tour

medium:

letters

person:

Balfour/ Henry Hutton/ J.H.

ethnicgroup:

Angami Sema

location:

Kohima Aichisagami Melahomi

date:

24.9.1922

production:

person:

Mills/ J.P.

acquirer:

person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum:	Mills Ms.

text:

Mokokchung,

text:

Naga Hills,

text:

Assam.

text:

Sept. 24th, 1922.

text:

Dear Balfour,

text:

Very many thanks for your letter. It is just as hard for me as for you to realize that you are in the Naga Hills at last! Now I long to get you away from the comparative civilization of Kohima. We meet somewhere about Oct.1922nd at Aichisagami I take it, the date that Hutton has fixed to kick off on the show against Melahomi and Co., if they don't pay. Then I have some things here for the Pitt-Rivers, but I want you to see them before they are packed up... We ought to see plenty of birds, but whether I shall know their names is another matter. Animals are harder to come across, but this country is not quite so "eaten up" as that of the Angamis and Semas...

text:

Yours ever,

text:

Philip Mills

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