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Series VAOBA - Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island - North East Aoba
Nduindui, Waluriki, Wallaha
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Date Range17 October 1927 - c. 1957
Quantity0.54 cm, 15 items
ProvenanceCapell, Arthur
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This series contains material from north east Aboa on Aboa Island, concentrating on the Aboa, Nduindui, Waluriki, Lolokara, and Wallaha languages. It includes typed and annotated ethnological notes on the area, comparative vocabulary lists (English-Aboa-Nduindui-Waluriki-Wallaha), local texts (some annotated by Capell), and correspondence between Capell and Paul E. Grant.

The Republic of Vanuatu is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago is located some 1,750 km east of Australia, 500 km north-east of New Caledonia, west of Fiji and south of the Solomon Islands. It was named New Hebrides during its colonial period.

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

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AC2-VAOBA11 Tale of Bat-pila's son and the Oba man's son.
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Waluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Typescript/manuscript (photocopy). Introduction of long-distance canoes and hermaphrodites.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA11
Date range no date    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA11 Series VAOBA
AC2-VAOBA110 Revised Melanesian word list, Omba-Waluriki.
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Walluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Typescript, annotations by Capell.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA110
Date range no date (ca 1957)    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA110 Series VAOBA
AC2-VAOBA111 Omba-Wluriki sentences, texts.
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Walluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Manuscript. Capell's hand, in pencil.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA111
Date range no date (ca 1957)    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA111 Series VAOBA
AC2-VAOBA112 Vocabulary, Omba (Waluriki), plus unused English sentence/story material.
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Walluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Typescript with pencil annotations by Capell.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA112
Date range no date    Quantity 0.04 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA112 Series VAOBA
AC2-VAOBA113 The Paternoster in Duidui, (adapted to the orthography of the Melanesian Mission).
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Walluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Typescript, with ink annotations. Interlinear gloss[ary] in English (not Capell's hand).

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA113
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA113 Series VAOBA
AC2-VAOBA114 Oba text.
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Walluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Manuscript.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA114
Date range no date    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA114 Series VAOBA
AC2-VAOBA115 Letter to Capell from Paul Grant, with Story of the Prodigal Son - Walaha dialect.
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Walluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Typescript, plus annotations. Informant: Benjamin Huhu.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA115
Date range 13 April 1957    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA115 Series VAOBA
AC2-VAOBA12 Dialect of Lolokara, Island of Oba.
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Waluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Manuscript, ink, pencil. Writer is not identified, but material was sent to Capell by Miss I. Christeren[?] of Santo.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA12
Date range no date    Quantity 0.09 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA12 Series VAOBA
AC2-VAOBA13 2 letter to Capell from Paul E. Grant, Apostolic Church Mission Wallaha, Aoba.
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Waluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Typescript. References to Nduindui and Wallaha.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA13
Date range 5 October 1953 - 12 July 1954    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA13 Series VAOBA
AC2-VAOBA14 Duindui, vocabulary and some sentences.
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Waluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Typescript and annotations by Capell. In Capell's hand. Augmented by map and notes from A.B. Deacon, JRAI, vol iii[?]. Added notes in red from Suas. Anthropos, 1914.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA14
Date range ca late 1950s    Quantity 0.11 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA14 Series VAOBA
AC2-VAOBA15 Lolokara-Oba language. English-Lolokara vocabulary and notes.
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Waluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Typescript/manuscript, annotations by Capell. Writer not identified. Ink and pencil. Possibly forwarded by P.E. Grant or I. Christenson.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA15
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA15 Series VAOBA
AC2-VAOBA16 [Comparative vocabulary] Nduindui-Wallaha.
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Waluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Typescript/manuscript, annotations by Capell. Possibly forwarded by P.E. Grant or I. Christenson.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA16
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA16 Series VAOBA
AC2-VAOBA17 Vocabulary, English and Oba.
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Walluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Typescript, plus annotations, ink. Capell added Nuindui dialect in ink.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA17
Date range 17 October 1927, (see reverse of title page)    Quantity 0.06 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA17 Series VAOBA
AC2-VAOBA18 Duidui compared to unspecified language.
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Walluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Typescript, annotations. Not Capell's hand. 71 sentences.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA18
Date range no date (ca 1957)    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA18 Series VAOBA
AC2-VAOBA19 Waluriki compared to same unspecified language.
N.E. Aoba, Nduindui, Walluriki, Wallaha, Northern Vanuatu - Aboa Island.
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Typescript, annotations. Same unspecified language as in VAOBA18. Not Capell's hand.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VAOBA19
Date range no date (ca 1957)    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VAOBA19 Series VAOBA
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