This series contains material from the central west coast of Bougainville Island (in Papua New Guniea), covering the Banoni language and its dialects (Amun, Piva, Torokina, and Mabes). It includes letters to Capell from Peter C. Lincon, typed papers by Lincon (one on Banoni orthography, another on ‘Papuanization’), a large English-Banoni vocabulary list (also by Lincon), a typed and annotated survey vocabulary list, handwritten notes on Banoni kinship terms, and Capell’s own notes on contrastive phoneme patterns in certain Austronesian languages.

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: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainville_Island

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04  Bougainville, Buka and Offshore Islands - Regions and Languages