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Series VVAO - Vanuatu - Malekula Island - North East Coast
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Date Range1936? - 1938?, first record 1936 or 37, last record c late 1930s
Quantity0.51 cm, 11 items
ProvenanceCapell, Arthur
Description

Malakula Island is located at 16.30° S and 167.50° E in the Pacific Ocean region of Melanesia. Is second largest island of the archipelago of the New Hebrides and is a constituent part of the nation of Vanuatu.

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

An alternate spelling of Malekula Island is Malakula Island.

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Inventory Listing

AC2-VVAO101 Vao (syntax).
Vao, Vanuatu - Malekula Island, N.E. Coast.
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Typescript plus annotations, cut and paste layout. (Extracts of all texts). Compiled by John Layard. Grammatical features, phrase forms, numerals and kinship terms.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VVAO101
Date range 1936 or 1937    Quantity 0.07 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VVAO101 Series VVAO
AC2-VVAO102a Letter from John Layard to Capell. Note giving additional verb-pronoun forms.
Vao, Vanuatu - Malekula Island, N.E. Coast.
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Typescript plus annotations.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VVAO102a
Date range 6 September 1936    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VVAO102a Series VVAO
AC2-VVAO102b Letter from John Layard to Capell. Wide-ranging discussion of race laws, censorship and oppression in Nazi Germany.
Vao, Vanuatu - Malekula Island, N.E. Coast.
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Typescript plus annotations. Comments on books by Jensen, Hocait[?] and Knight. Mention of Layard's Vao work and Capell's New Hebrides Malekula Studies and other matters.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VVAO102b
Date range 26 February 1937    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VVAO102b Series VVAO
AC2-VVAO102c Letter from John Layard to Capell. Short note mentioning Capell's return to Australia (on completing doctoral studies), some passing comments on language, mainly Atchin.
Vao, Vanuatu - Malekula Island, N.E. Coast.
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Typescript.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VVAO102c
Date range 6 March 1937    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VVAO102c Series VVAO
AC2-VVAO102d Letter from John Layard to Capell. Response to queries by Capell in letter of 8 June 1937, re Malekula spoken and song languages.
Vao, Vanuatu - Malekula Island, N.E. Coast.
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Typescript. Topics include accentuation of sentences, accentuation of words and particles; verb forms, numerals and kinship terms. Language/dialects mentioned are S.W. Bay (Seniang), Lumbumbu, Lagalag, the Small Islands and Vao.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VVAO102d
Date range 13 June 1937    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VVAO102d Series VVAO
AC2-VVAO103 Theoretical forms of Atchin verbal pronouns.
Vao, Vanuatu - Malekula Island, N.E. Coast.
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Typescript (copy). Comments and notes sent to Layard by Capell and referred to in 2c) above.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VVAO103
Date range ca 1937    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VVAO103 Series VVAO
AC2-VVAO104 Vao language (phrases occurring in Pere Godefroy's letters.)
Vao, Vanuatu - Malekula Island, N.E. Coast.
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Typescript plus annotations, cut & paste layout. Compiled for Capell by John Layard.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VVAO104
Date range ca 1937    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VVAO104 Series VVAO
AC2-VVAO105 Vao language (with Capell).
Vao, Vanuatu - Malekula Island, N.E. Coast.
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Typescript plus annotations. Draft of a collaborative work by Layard and Capell. Typescript seems to have been prepared by the latter. Contains phonetics, grammar, syntax and a vocabulary glossary.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VVAO105
Date range ca 1937    Quantity 0.16 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VVAO105 Series VVAO
AC2-VVAO106 English-Vao vocabulary (no title).
Vao, Vanuatu - Malekula Island, N.E. Coast.
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Typescript. Probably compiled by Capell. Some comparisons with IN, Atchin, Wala and other eastern Malekula languages.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VVAO106
Date range ca late 1930s    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VVAO106 Series VVAO
AC2-VVAO107 Vao pig grades.
Vao, Vanuatu - Malekula Island, N.E. Coast.
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Typescript/manuscript. Probably compiled by Capell. Plus notes in Capell's hand.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VVAO107
Date range ca late 1930s    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VVAO107 Series VVAO
AC2-VVAO108 Vao vocabulary.
Vao, Vanuatu - Malekula Island, N.E. Coast.
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Manuscript.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VVAO108
Date range no date    Quantity 0.07 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VVAO108 Series VVAO
Published by the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures,
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HTML edition Nicholas Thieberger
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