Letter to Walter Hough
name: label: Creator
content: Balfour, Henry
label: Addressee
content: Hough, Walter, 1859-1935
label: Collection Creator
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Department of Anthropology
label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology
topic: label: Topic
content: Lamps -- Oxford, England
creator: label: Creator
content: Balfour, Henry
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content: Department of Anthropology records
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content: Department of Anthropology records / Series 17: Division of Ethnology / 17.1: Manuscript and Pamphlet File / Hough, Walter—Incoming letters
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: December 13, 1890
container: label: Container
content: Box 22, Folder 293
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Discusses Hough's paper on fire making and his own experiments. Offers items in exchange for an offered Chitimacha blow gun and an Anderson River fire drill. Thanks Hough for a sketch of a primitive lamp from West Virginia and provides a sketch of a primitive lamp found in Oxford. Also provides sketch of a "primitive" cast iron baker's lamp.