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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Henry
| name = Balfour
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = MA
| image = File:Balfour,_Henry.jpg
| birth_date = 1863
| death_date = 1939
| address = Anthropological Department, Museum, Oxford; 11 Norham Gardens, Oxford<br />Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; Langley Lodge, Headington Hill, Oxford [1907]<br />
| occupation = museum work<br />archaeologist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1888
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left =
| clubs = Athenaeum Club<br />Royal Societies Club
| societies = Museums Association<br />Folklore Society<br />Royal Geographical Society<br />Royal Society<br />Prehistoric Society of East Anglia<br />Anthropological Society of Paris
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1891 Member<br />AI Council 1892 Member<br />AI Council 1893 Member<br />AI Council 1894 Member<br />AI Council 1895 Member<br />AI Council 1896 Member<br />AI Council 1897 Vice President<br />AI Council 1898 Vice President<br />AI Council 1899 Vice President<br />AI Council 1900 Member<br />AI Council 1901 Member<br />AI Council 1902 Member<br />AI Council 1903 President<br />AI Council 1904 President<br />AI Council 1912-13 Vice President (pp)
=== House Notes ===
Corresp. member Anthrop. Socs Paris, Florence and Rome<br /><br />1921 HML The archer’s bow in the Homeric poems: an attempted diagnosis<br /><br />A70/7/67 ‘Mr Balfour presented to this Institute a portrait of the late Lieut. Gen. Pitt-Rivers…’; AI Council minutes, 27 Nov. 1900, f. 22
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Henry Balfour FRS[1] (11 April 1863 Croydon – 9 February 1939) was a British archaeologist, and the first curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum.<br />He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Museums Association, the Folklore Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2]<br />Born in Croydon; died Oxford.<br />Curator, Pitt Rivers Museum.<br />Research Fellow, Exeter College. Titular Professor.<br /><br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Although he only wrote one book, The Evolution of Decorative Art (1893), Balfour published numerous scholarly articles, often taking a specific type of object – from musical bows to fire-pistons or fishing-kites – and exploring its "evolutionary development" through history and across different cultures<br />
=== House Publications ===
Stringed-wind instrument of Bushmen and Hottentots: the goura 1902<br />Pres, Address: relation of museumms to anthropology 1904<br />Pres. Address 1905<br />Implements of palaeolithic type from Zambesi 1906<br />Friction drum 1907<br />Modern brass-cutting in W. Africa 1910<br />Frictional fire making with a thong 1914<br />Origin of stencilling in Fiji 1924<br />
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
a few photos, and portraits<br />A94/2/19 obit. and a Bafour memorial Journal number by T.K. Penniman
=== Other Material ===
papers in PRM<br />Corresp with JLM in Bodleian<br />PRM field collector
| first_name = Henry
| name = Balfour
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = MA
| image = File:Balfour,_Henry.jpg
| birth_date = 1863
| death_date = 1939
| address = Anthropological Department, Museum, Oxford; 11 Norham Gardens, Oxford<br />Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; Langley Lodge, Headington Hill, Oxford [1907]<br />
| occupation = museum work<br />archaeologist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1888
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left =
| clubs = Athenaeum Club<br />Royal Societies Club
| societies = Museums Association<br />Folklore Society<br />Royal Geographical Society<br />Royal Society<br />Prehistoric Society of East Anglia<br />Anthropological Society of Paris
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1891 Member<br />AI Council 1892 Member<br />AI Council 1893 Member<br />AI Council 1894 Member<br />AI Council 1895 Member<br />AI Council 1896 Member<br />AI Council 1897 Vice President<br />AI Council 1898 Vice President<br />AI Council 1899 Vice President<br />AI Council 1900 Member<br />AI Council 1901 Member<br />AI Council 1902 Member<br />AI Council 1903 President<br />AI Council 1904 President<br />AI Council 1912-13 Vice President (pp)
=== House Notes ===
Corresp. member Anthrop. Socs Paris, Florence and Rome<br /><br />1921 HML The archer’s bow in the Homeric poems: an attempted diagnosis<br /><br />A70/7/67 ‘Mr Balfour presented to this Institute a portrait of the late Lieut. Gen. Pitt-Rivers…’; AI Council minutes, 27 Nov. 1900, f. 22
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Henry Balfour FRS[1] (11 April 1863 Croydon – 9 February 1939) was a British archaeologist, and the first curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum.<br />He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Museums Association, the Folklore Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2]<br />Born in Croydon; died Oxford.<br />Curator, Pitt Rivers Museum.<br />Research Fellow, Exeter College. Titular Professor.<br /><br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Although he only wrote one book, The Evolution of Decorative Art (1893), Balfour published numerous scholarly articles, often taking a specific type of object – from musical bows to fire-pistons or fishing-kites – and exploring its "evolutionary development" through history and across different cultures<br />
=== House Publications ===
Stringed-wind instrument of Bushmen and Hottentots: the goura 1902<br />Pres, Address: relation of museumms to anthropology 1904<br />Pres. Address 1905<br />Implements of palaeolithic type from Zambesi 1906<br />Friction drum 1907<br />Modern brass-cutting in W. Africa 1910<br />Frictional fire making with a thong 1914<br />Origin of stencilling in Fiji 1924<br />
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
a few photos, and portraits<br />A94/2/19 obit. and a Bafour memorial Journal number by T.K. Penniman
=== Other Material ===
papers in PRM<br />Corresp with JLM in Bodleian<br />PRM field collector
