John Henry Hutton

Career Anthropologist / Colonial Servant / Academic

Biography Worked in the Naga Hills for the Indian Civil Service, upon retirement became Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 01/02/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/53568 / Who was Who 2007 / http://history.prm.ox.ac.uk/collector_hutton.html

Clubs & Societies Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Folklore Society / Asiatic Society of Bengal / Royal Society of Arts / Oxford University Anthropological Society

County No counties listed

Relationship Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1968

Dates active 1885-1968

Donated around 1980

English collections Scrimshaw, medal presented to J.H. Hutton by the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1924, medal presented to J.H. Hutton by the Royal Society, 1910

Oxford Uni College Worcester College

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1903-1907

Oxford based No

Date in Oxford 1903-1907

Portrait link http://history.prm.ox.ac.uk/collector_hutton.html

English collection size 3

Connections J.P.H. Hutton / Henry Balfour / James Philip Mills / Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology