The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

letters from J.P. Mills to Henry Balfour

caption:

Persistence of head-hunting

medium:

letters

person:

Balfour/ Henry

ethnicgroup:

Semas Yimsongr

location:

Sakhalu Nantaleik R. (Ti-Ho R.) Melahomi

date:

20.6.1926

production:

person:

Mills/ J.P.

acquirer:

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

text:

United Service Club,

text:

Calcutta

text:

June 20th 1926

text:

My dear Balfour,

text:

...How I long for the Naga Hills sometimes. Head-hunting is not yet extinct there. Sakhalu, having founded a new village beyond the Ti-Ho has promptly gone to war and taken 5 heads. The Semas Melahomi way joined in a Yimsongr quarrel and lost some heads. So it goes merrily on...

text:

Yours ever,

text:

Philip Mills

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