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Series NSBSIW - North Solomons (Bougainville) Province - South West Bougainville Island
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language)
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Date Range21 October 1930 - c. 1965, last record is post 1965 and perhaps earlier
Quantity0.96 cm, 22 items
ProvenanceCapell, Arthur
Description

This series contains material from south west Bougainville Island, concentrating on the Siwai-Motuna language. It includes letters to Capell from the missionary A.H. Joyce, typed and handwritten comparative vocabulary lists (some compiled by Capell), texts translated line-by-line from English into Siwai-Motuna, biblical texts in Siwai-Motuna, grammatical notes on Siwai-Motuna, and several tables documenting Siwai-Motuna verbs (some compiled 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-NSBSIW101 Letter to Capell from missionary A.H. Joyce, Siwai via Kieta.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. Outlines effort in getting together a Siwai dictionary, some ethnological details and the naming of language in and around the Siwai district.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW101
Date range 21 October 1930    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW101 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW102 Letter to Capell from Joyce with a substantial amount of linguistic material.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. Also discusses problems associated with field work in the region. Attached is also a letter to Capell from Pamela Beaumont (dated 7 October 1964) of the Methodist mission, Siwai, acknowledging receipt of copies of Joyces's letters (and possibly other material) and giving some hints about verb markers and orthography. Some comments by Capell at pages 6 and 7.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW102
Date range 29 December 1932    Quantity 0.04 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW102 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW103 Foundation vocabularies (A. Capell, South Pacific Comission, Honiara, 1960), Siwai language.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript/manuscript. Collected at Goldie College, Banga Island from Jecob Neewai, Job Kompaca, Daniel Kakapasa, Steven Kumuka and Elijah Kauma. Vocabulary, phrases, texts.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW103
Date range ca 1963    Quantity 0.11 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW103 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW104 Siwai vocabulary.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. In Capell's hand. Some short hand.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW104
Date range no date    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW104 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW105 Motuna or Siwai language, S.W. Bougainville.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript. Word lists indicating how places, nests, roads, rivers, gardens, topographical locations, bundles, holes, breadfruit and body parts are counted. Some annotations by Capell. Source unknown.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW105
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW105 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW106 Revised Melanesian wordlist.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript/manuscript. English-(MN?)-Siwai. Compiled by j. Kompaka. Vocabulary, phrases, sentences, texts.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW106
Date range ca 1963    Quantity 0.05 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW106 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW107 Motuna-English vocabulary.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript. Compiled and typed by Capell, but no by-line. Some annotations in his hand.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW107
Date range no date    Quantity 0.12 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW107 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW108 Siwai, B'ville. The Lord's Prayer & the Creed.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript/manuscript. Translated by Jecob Newani. Texts with interlinear gloss[aries], plus the Creed in Roviana.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW108
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW108 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW109 Jihrei Jisu Kori. Biblical texts in Kiwai.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. Writer not identified.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW109
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW109 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW110 Text in Siwai. Bumayong.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. By Stephen Koro. With English interlinear gloss[ary].

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW110
Date range no date    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW110 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW201 English-Motuna [word list].
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript. Unknown source.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW201
Date range no date    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW201 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW202 Jisu Karisto Pokog Wasii Mirahan So Maka Ki Pitug. Hoita 1-5. Korokoro Motuna [Motuna language].
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript. Probably produced by the Methodist Mission. Original pagination 1-18 (p. 17 seems to be missing).

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW202
Date range no date    Quantity 0.09 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW202 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW203 Mission teaching aid.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript/manuscript. Poorly preserved and incomplete. English-Siwai phrases, texts, psalms and Lord's Prayer in Siwai. Annotations in Capell's and other hands. Some pages heavily stained.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW203
Date range no date    Quantity 0.05 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW203 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW204 Siwai pronouns, verbal structures, and pronoun/person markers.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. A random collection of research notes by Capell, mostly on recycled paper.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW204
Date range no date (but ca 1964-5)    Quantity 0.06 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW204 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW205 Capell's research notes on Siwai (and some neighbouring languages).
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. Based on D.L. Oliver's Studies in the Anthropology of Bougainville…(1949, Cambridge, MA), and his A Solomon Island Society…(1955 Cambridge MA) - both Harvard Uni Press - with copy of map from Oliver's Bougainville, A Personal History (Melbourne Uni Press 1973).

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW205
Date range post 1965 and perhaps earlier    Quantity 0.06 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW205 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW206 Untitled. Tables of number and tense markers tor Siwai verb forms.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. In Capell's hand.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW206
Date range no date    Quantity 0.04 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW206 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW207 Untitled. Capell's research notes on Siwai verbs.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW207
Date range no date    Quantity 0.04 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW207 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW208 Sentences in final and medial forms in Siwai.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. Capell's research notes.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW208
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW208 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW209 Siwai text Keita Pepe Kurah.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. In Siwai with interlinear English gloss[ary]. Informant not named, but it was transcribed in Capell's hand.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW209
Date range no date    Quantity 0.04 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW209 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW210 Siwai verb system.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript/typescript. Capell's research notes. Annotations in his hand.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW210
Date range no date (ca 1964)    Quantity 0.04 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW210 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW211 Untitled. Verb system and syntax in Siwai.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript/typescript. Capell's research notes.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW211
Date range no date    Quantity 0.04 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW211 Series NSBSIW
AC2-NSBSIW212 Untitled. Brief Siwai-English vocabulary.
Siwai-Motuna (Papuan language), S.W. Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. In Capell's hand.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBSIW212
Date range ca 1964    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBSIW212 Series NSBSIW
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