Series NSBCVOC - North Solomons (Bougainville) Province - Bougainville and Buka Islands
Various comparative vocabularies


Date Rangec. 1931 - c. 1964
Quantity0.84 cm, 8 items
ProvenanceCapell, Arthur
Description

This series contains material from Bougainville and Buka Islands. It includes five comparative vocabulary lists, some of which are handwritten (one by Capell), and covers languages including Buin, Siwai, Nasioi, Nagovisi, Baitsi, Mabtn, Koram, Saposa, Petats, and Kunua.

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

Buka Island is the second largest island in the Papua New Guinean province of Bougainville. The island was the site of fighting between Australian, American and Japanese troops during World War II.

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

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Inventory Listing

AC2-NSBCVOC101 Set of tables of pronoun/tense markers in Rugara (Buin) Nasioi and Motuna (Siwai).
Various comparative vocabularies, Bougainville & Buka Islands, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript (on cards). Capell's hand. Includes some Baguui (= Bautsi).

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBCVOC101
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBCVOC101 Series NSBCVOC
AC2-NSBCVOC102 Short word list (Capell's hand). English-Nasioi-Rugara (Buin)-Motuna (Siwai)-Sibbe (Nagovisi)-Baitsi.
Various comparative vocabularies, Bougainville & Buka Islands, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. Also two phrases without English translation.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBCVOC102
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBCVOC102 Series NSBCVOC
AC2-NSBCVOC103 (Comparative) vocabulary, South Bougainville.
Various comparative vocabularies, Bougainville & Buka Islands, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. German-Koromira (dialect)-Uruava-Torau.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBCVOC103
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBCVOC103 Series NSBCVOC
AC2-NSBCVOC104 Untitled. English-Nasioi-Mabtn-Koram-Bautsi.
Various comparative vocabularies, Bougainville & Buka Islands, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript. Deteriorating pages.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBCVOC104
Date range no date    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBCVOC104 Series NSBCVOC
AC2-NSBCVOC105 Untitled. Comparative vocabularies Saposa-Petats-Konua (Kunua).
Various comparative vocabularies, Bougainville & Buka Islands, North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript with annotations. Source unknown (mission?). Some annotations but not in Capell's hand. Together with numerals, phrases, sentences and notes on 'Morai' or Konua and the distribution of speakers.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBCVOC105
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBCVOC105 Series NSBCVOC
AC2-NSBCVOC201 Languages of the Bougainville District by Jerry Allen and Conrad Hurd
Bougainville
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58 page text.

Languages of the Bougainville district. By Jerry Allen and Conrad Hurd. Summer institute of Linguistics. Report on the results of the 1963 Bougainville language survey, of which completed survey sheets are filed under specific languages in the Capell papers. The report expands on the published and mission materials referred to in Cpaell's earlier studies for the South Pacific Commission. Contains a detailed language boundaries map.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBCVOC201
Date range c. 1964    Quantity 0.7 cm,
Formats Published Reports
Inventory Identifier SBCVOC201 Series NSBCVOC
AC2-NSBCVOC202 Keriaka (Kereaka)
Bougainville
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1 page manuscript.

Keriaka. Short English - Keriaka word list. Unknown hand.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBCVOC202
Quantity 0.02 cm, Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier SBCVOC202 Series NSBCVOC
AC2-NSBCVOC203 Letter from A. H. Boyce about Roviana
Bougainville
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1 page typed manuscript.

Letter to Capell from A. H. Boyce (Siwai, Bougainville) in reference to the progress of translation work and knowledge of Roviana. Page in advanced decay.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBCVOC203
Date range 26-12-1931    Quantity 0.02 cm,
Formats General Correspondence and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier SBCVOC203 Series NSBCVOC

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