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FRAZ/17/69
Title
Letter from J. H. Hutton to Sir James Frazer
Date(s)
- 24 July 1923 (Creation)
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4 items (2 docs and 2 black and white photographs)
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Kohima, Naga Hills, Assam - Encloses typescript 'Treatment of the Dead at Karawi' for his volume on the belief in immortality, as it is different from that of most Nagas; also encloses articles of his which appeared in 'Man in India' [not present]; is back from a tour across country never before visited or only by Woodthorpe, is passing his photographs to Balfour and hopes for publication; in a postscript, he passes along a reference to the Karen version of the fall of man in MacMahon's 'The Karens of the Golden Chersonese'. Accompanied by two photographs: one identified as Furniture of the Dead from [Karasira?], the other a Pangkhul grave with soul house behind.
Accompanied by the envelope.