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
creator: label: Creator
content: Balfour, Henry
culture: label: Culture
content: Carib -- stone axes
label: Culture
content: Indian -- Fire drills
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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: 8 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: January 19, 1890
container: label: Container
content: Box 22, Folder 293
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Letters
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Letters
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Concerns an exchange of a Cyprian lamp at the museum for which Balfour wanted an Eskimo stone lamp. Discusses the place of the Cyrprian lamp in a comparative series. Offers an exchange of Carib axes or reproductions of a Indian fire drill. Discusses preservatives and cleaners for specimens. The letter includes sketches of the axes and fire drill.