Series NSBTEO - North Solomons (Bougainville) Province - Teop Island and Adjacent Coast of Bougainville Island
Teop (Austronesian language)


Date Range20 May 1932 - c. 1963
Quantity0.37 cm, 7 items
ProvenanceCapell, Arthur
Description

This series contains material from Teop Island and the adjacent coast of Bougainville Island, concentrating on the Teop language. It includes handwritten grammatical notes on Teop, comparative vocabulary lists (English-Teop), correspondence from J.H.L. Waterhouse to Capell, and an English-Losiara comparative vocabulary list.

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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04  Bougainville, Buka and Offshore Islands - Regions and Languages


Inventory Listing

AC2-NSBTEO101 Collection of untitled papers headed 'Te Mohiva, Siwai'.
Teop (AN language), Teop I. & adjacent coast, Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript. In several hands, the main one probably the Rev. J. Waterhouse. Pages 1/1-1/20 have references to Teop, but other languages/dialects may be exemplified. Grammatical notes, vocabulary, drawing. Material on reverse of the black bordered pages may be unrelated but still in the Bougainville area.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBTEO101
Date range April 1934    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBTEO101 Series NSBTEO
AC2-NSBTEO102 Revised Melanesian wordlist. Teop language and Rotokas [adjacent Papuan language].
Teop (AN language), Teop I. & adjacent coast, Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript/manuscript. Collected by Jeremiah Vabero Toavi. Vocabulary and texts. Set out: (Rotokas)-English-MN (or possibly Polia Mota)-Teop-(Rotokas).

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBTEO102
Date range no date (ca 1963)    Quantity 0.05 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBTEO102 Series NSBTEO
AC2-NSBTEO103 Survey wordlist: Bougainville Survey Extra. Teop language.
Teop (AN language), Teop I. & adjacent coast, Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript. Collected at Kekesu Mission by a native teacher Abel Siovoro. English-Teop vocabulary and sentences. This list is found on Tape #2.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBTEO103
Date range 14 March 1963    Quantity 0.05 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBTEO103 Series NSBTEO
AC2-NSBTEO104 Letter to Capell from J.H.L. Waterhouse, together with grammatical notes, vocabulary, phrases and lessons/texts in the Teop language.
Teop (AN language), Teop I. & adjacent coast, Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript/manuscript. Note: Wordlist (pp 4/3-4/4 are repeated in folio 5, but with different annotations.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBTEO104
Date range 20 May 1932    Quantity 0.05 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBTEO104 Series NSBTEO
AC2-NSBTEO105 Letter to J. Waterhouse from Capell with comments on Teop language notes from Waterhouse.
Teop (AN language), Teop I. & adjacent coast, Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript/manuscript. Together with grammatical and lexical notes derived from those by Capell. Note: pages 5/8 and 5/9 are copies of Waterhouse's Teop wordlist in folio 4, but are annotated differently.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBTEO105
Date range 7 June 1932    Quantity 0.05 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBTEO105 Series NSBTEO
AC2-NSBTEO106 Teop [words and phrases] with some English equivalents.
Teop (AN language), Teop I. & adjacent coast, Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Manuscript/typescript. Unknown hand/source.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBTEO106
Date range no date    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBTEO106 Series NSBTEO
AC2-NSBTEO107 Teop-Losiara (dialect?) Survey wordlist (standard). Bougainville Survey Extra.
Teop (AN language), Teop I. & adjacent coast, Bougainville I., North Solomons/Bougainville.
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Typescript. Collected at Pateaviari by Deao (helper) and Karesi (village teacher). List is found on Tape #2.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBTEO107
Date range 13 March 1963    Quantity 0.05 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SBTEO107 Series NSBTEO

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