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Series NSBPET - North Solomons (Bougainville) Province - West Baku Island and Offshore Islands
Petats, Matsungan (Austronesian languages)
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Date Range1926? - c. 1963, first record is 1926 and later
Quantity1.21 cm, 13 items
ProvenanceCapell, Arthur
Description

This series contains material from west Baku Island and other offshore islands, concentrating on the Petats and Matsungan languages. It includes an annotated phrasebook of Petats (original by J.H.L. Waterhouse), the Gospel of St Mark in Petats, correspondence between Capell and Allan H. Cropp, comparative vocabulary lists (Petats-English), as well as grammatical notes and tables on Petats (some handwritten by Capell).

Bougainville is the largest of the Solomon Islands and a province of Papua New Guinea. Bougainville and the adjacent island of Buka are sometimes called the North Solomons, and are ecologically and geographically, although not politically, considered part of the Solomon Islands. Buka, Bougainville, and most of the Solomons are part of the Solomon Islands rain forests ecoregion.

For more information: External site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainville_Island

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Inventory Listing

AC2-NSBPETA101 Sundry entries in A Roviana Phrase Book, by J.H.L. Waterhouse, Epworth Press, Sydney 1926.
Petats, Austronesian language, offshore islands, West Baku Is, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript/manuscript (stained). Held in folder marked 'Petats'. Some are in Petats, but examples of other alnguages may be present (Teop is suggested). Entries are in different hands and throughout the booklet, there are Italian phrases including a set headed 'Partito Nationale Fascists', with no explanation. The date 2/4/21 is written of first page, which is odd, given that the booklet was published in 1926. Words, phrases and sentences.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBPETA101
Date range 1926 and later    Quantity 0.27 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BPETA101 Series NSBPET
AC2-NSBPETA102 U Bulugan U Raeh Ter e Jisas Kraij. Te Keleg e nia e Mak. [St. Mark's Gospel in Petats (tentative edition)].
Petats, Austronesian language, offshore islands, West Baku Is, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript. British and Foreign Bible Society, London 1934. Some annotations by Capell.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBPETA102
Date range 1934    Quantity 0.37 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BPETA102 Series NSBPET
AC2-NSBPETA103 Letter to Capell (then in London) from the missionary Allan H. Cropp.
Petats, Austronesian language, offshore islands, West Baku Is, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript. Contains a Petats-English vocabulary, grammatical notes and answers to a set of questions put by Capell. Also refers to the work on Petats done by Sidney Ray and the anthropologist Beatrice Blackwood. Information about other Buka/Bougainville languages. Notes and vocabulary are annotated by Capell. Some pages stained.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBPETA103
Date range 8 October 1935    Quantity 0.06 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BPETA103 Series NSBPET
AC2-NSBPETA104 Petats-English [vocabulary].
Petats, Austronesian language, offshore islands, West Baku Is, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript/manuscript. No by-line, but definitely by Capell (his typing style and handwriting).

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBPETA104
Date range no date    Quantity 0.09 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BPETA104 Series NSBPET
AC2-NSBPETA105 Petats sentences.
Petats, Austronesian language, offshore islands, West Baku Is, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript. No by-line, but compiled by Capell (his typing style).

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBPETA105
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BPETA105 Series NSBPET
AC2-NSBPETA106 Bor Petats [Petats language], 156 words in English-Petats.
Petats, Austronesian language, offshore islands, West Baku Is, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. In two hands. The Petats informatino is in the same hand that sometimes appears in folio 1 above. Contains a note on orthography. Stained.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBPETA106
Date range no date (possibly same time as folio 1)    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BPETA106 Series NSBPET
AC2-NSBPETA107 Revised Melanesian word list - Petats. English-Lingua Franca?-Petats.
Petats, Austronesian language, offshore islands, West Baku Is, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typscript/manuscript. Informant: J.F. Bongbong, spoken at "Petats Island…and the Methodist People at Buka". Words, phrases, sentences, texts.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBPETA107
Date range no date (ca 1963)    Quantity 0.05 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BPETA107 Series NSBPET
AC2-NSBPETA108 Survey word list (standard) Bougainville Survey Extra.
Petats, Austronesian language, offshore islands, West Baku Is, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript. Informant Agrippa tucan, Petats Village, Petats Island. Set up: English-Tokpisin-Lingua Franca(?)-Petats. Left hand column, p. 8/4 missing. *Note: this list is found on Tape #2.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBPETA108
Date range 4 March 1963    Quantity 0.05 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BPETA108 Series NSBPET
AC2-NSBPETA109 Untitled set of sentences in Petats.
Petats, Austronesian language, offshore islands, West Baku Is, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript/manuscript. P = Petats Island dialect and Matsungan Island dialect = M. In Capell's hand.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBPETA109
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BPETA109 Series NSBPET
AC2-NSBPETA110 Petats. Randomly ordered set of grammatical notes.
Petats, Austronesian language, offshore islands, West Baku Is, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript/manuscript. In Capell's hand.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBPETA110
Date range no date (post 1950)    Quantity 0.15 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BPETA110 Series NSBPET
AC2-NSBPETA111 Untitled. Partially completed table of tense markers in Petac (Petats), Hanahan, Timpuc (Timputz) and Tiop (Teop) - Buka and N. Bougainville languages.
Petats, Austronesian language, offshore islands, West Baku Is, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. In Capell's hand.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBPETA111
Date range post 1950    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BPETA111 Series NSBPET
AC2-NSBPETM101 Revised Melanesian wordlist.
Petats/Matsungan, Austronesian language, Matsungan I., W. of Buka Island, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript/manuscript. Informant: Joel Boing, Matsungan Island (identified as Majugan). Setout: English-possibly Melanesian?-Matsungan. Matsungan is a dialect of Petats.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBPETM101
Date range ca 1963 or before    Quantity 0.07 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BPETM101 Series NSBPET
AC2-NSBPETM102 Petats-Matsungan. Survey word list.
Petats/Matsungan, Austronesian language, Matsungan I., W. of Buka Island, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript. Bougainville Survey Extra. Informant coel bo'en (Joel Boing). Set out: English-Tokpisin-Lingua Franca-Matsungen. *Note: "This list is found on Tape #6." Words, sentences. Incomplete.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBPETM102
Date range 5 March 1963    Quantity 0.05 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BPETM102 Series NSBPET
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