The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

letters from J.P. Mills to Henry Balfour

caption:

Acquisition of an imitation "head" from Semkhor

medium:

letters

person:

Balfour/ Henry

ethnicgroup:

Kuki Sema

location:

Semkhor

date:

21.3.1927

production:

person:

Mills/ J.P.

acquirer:

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

text:

Silchar,

text:

Cachar,

text:

Assam

text:

March 21st 1927

text:

My dear Balfour,

text:

...Not that my fingers have been sheared for some time! I have been having a delightful tour in the N.C.Hills, looking at Nagas and Kukis all the time, and daily repeating to myself "Remember Henry Balfour". The result has been a small collection containing a few new things. The best thing is an imitation head which I frankly "acquired" (aided and abetted by a Sema chaprasi) from the cemetery of Semkhor. You will understand the significance when you get my Tour Diary and special note on Semkhor...

text:

Yours ever,

text:

Philip Mills

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