Henry Balfour (Oxford) to B.S., 1923-08-30
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Henry Balfour has made a trip to India. Hence correspondence has been neglected. His regrets at B.S.'s retirement but pleasure that he has begun 'a general account of Australian aborigines' Some suggestions for points to be included.
'Things have been coming in to the Museum and I want another building badly'
Details of his trip to Nagaland with Hutton and Mills. The NAGAS are 'excellent savages, some of them quite intelligent.' Head hunting. Methods of fire-making.
Henry Balfour has written to George Pitt-Rivers to say how glad he would be to have his collection. G. P-R. is 'inclined to think that no one else can do decent work, but he may grow out of that'.
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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