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Series SIBUG - South East Solomon Islands - Santa Isabel Island
Bugotu language and anthropology, Gao [language]
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Date Range1933 - 12 April 1960
Quantity2.86 cm, 15 items
ProvenanceCapell, Arthur
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This series contains material from Santa Isabel Island, concentrating on the Bugotu and Gao languages as well as the anthropology of the area. It includes correspondence between Capell and George Bogese, exercise books containing handwritten notes (written by George Bogese and annotated by Capell) on the anthropology of Santa Isabel Island as well as Bugotu words, phrases, and grammar, biblical extracts in Bugotu, and a reprint of an article by W.G. Ivens on the grammar og Bugotu (annotated by Capell).

Solomon Islands is a nation in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Papua New Guinea and is part of the Commonwealth of Nations. It consists of more than 990 islands, which together cover a land mass of 28,000 square kilometres.

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

An alternative spelling of Santa Isabel Island appears to be Santa Isobel Island.

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AC2-SIBUG101 Letter to Capell from George Bogese, a mission worker at Bugotu, Santa Isobel.
Bugotu language and anthropology, Solomon Islands, Santa Isobel.
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Manuscript. Inquiring about progress with his Bugotu Grammar sent to Prof. Elkin for possible publication (see following folios). Mentions follow-up material in the Kia language (see file AC2-SIKIA1).

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG101
Date range 15 March 1951    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG101 Series SIBUG
AC2-SIBUG102 Modern Exercise Book 1. Bogutu - Santa Isabella [by George Bogese]. History, customs, illnesses, food preparation, word lists, gardening, hunting.
Bugotu language and anthropology, Solomon Islands, Santa Isobel.
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Manuscript. Annotations in Capell's hand.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG102
Date range no date    Quantity 0.37 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG102 Series SIBUG
AC2-SIBUG103 Modern Exercise Book II. Bogutu - Santa Isabella (cont'd). [by George Bogese].
Bugotu language and anthropology, Solomon Islands, Santa Isobel.
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Manuscript. Contents include house building, language including lost dialect material, dancing, songs, customs, land and property rights, pregnancy and childbirth, children's play.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG103
Date range no date    Quantity 0.31 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG103 Series SIBUG
AC2-SIBUG104 Modern Exercise Book III. Bogutu - Santa Isabella (cont'd) [by George Bogese].
Bugotu language and anthropology, Solomon Islands, Santa Isobel.
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Manuscript. Contents include children's play and songs, adults' play, fables and tales, numerals, beliefs.

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 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG104
Date range no date    Quantity 0.26 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG104 Series SIBUG
AC2-SIBUG105 Exercise book. IV Miscellaneous [by George Bogese].
Bugotu language and anthropology, Solomon Islands, Santa Isobel.
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Manuscript. Contents include vocabularies, customs, social organisation, indigenous history, white contact, murder, native money, manufactured goods, types of building, orthography.

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 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG105
Date range no date    Quantity 0.38 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG105 Series SIBUG
AC2-SIBUG106 Modern Exercise Book V. Bugotu-Santa Isabel-Sol. Islands.
Bugotu language and anthropology, Solomon Islands, Santa Isobel.
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Manuscript. Cover incorrectly labelled "Song Book". Addenda. Contents include relationshpi rems, land acquisition, true stories, pregnancy, conception, infanticide, de-population pestilence, anxiety and fear.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG106
Date range no date    Quantity 0.22 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG106 Series SIBUG
AC2-SIBUG107 The Shell Exercise Boo. VI. Bugoto-Santa Isabella (cont'd).
Bugotu language and anthropology, Solomon Islands, Santa Isobel.
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Manuscript. Contents include anxiety and fear, the present indigenous people, clan structure deity, songs in Buguto and English.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG107
Date range no date    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG107 Series SIBUG
AC2-SIBUG108 The Shell Exercise Book. VII. Bogutu-Santa Isabella (cont'd) [by George Bogese].
Bugotu language and anthropology, Solomon Islands, Santa Isobel.
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Manuscript. Boguto Point, or Peninsuler (sic). Contents mainly discuss geography and topography.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG108
Date range no date    Quantity 0.11 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG108 Series SIBUG
AC2-SIBUG109 The Shell Exercise Book VIII. Buguto stories in vernacular. With remarks.
Bugotu language and anthropology, Solomon Islands, Santa Isobel.
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Manuscript. [by George Bogese]. Includes Boguto words and phrases.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG109
Date range no date    Quantity 0.24 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG109 Series SIBUG
AC2-SIBUG110 Modern Exercise Book, ix. Boguto-Santa Isabella.
Bugotu language and anthropology, Solomon Islands, Santa Isobel.
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Manuscript. Bugotu stories in the vernacular (cont'd) [by George Bogese]. Contents include Boguto-English words and phrases.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG110
Date range no date    Quantity 0.11 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG110 Series SIBUG
AC2-SIBUG111 Letter to Capell from George Bogese, referring to the Grammar discussed below.
Bugotu language and anthropology, Solomon Islands, Santa Isobel.
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Manuscript. In addition to notes on pronunciation in the Bugotu language, he severely criticises earlier work by Ivens and Ray who made claims about spoken Bugotu without having heard them at first hand. Note: Capell took the criticism seriously and highlighted it in his Linguistic Survey of the South-Western Pacific (SPC Tech Paper #136) and recommended that the Bugotu Grammar be revisited.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG111
Date range 24 May 1951    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG111 Series SIBUG
AC2-SIBUG112 Ruled Exercise Book. Bugotu Grammar Sant. Isa., Solomon Islands.
Bugotu language and anthropology, Solomon Islands, Santa Isobel.
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Manuscript.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG112
Date range no date    Quantity 0.39 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG112 Series SIBUG
AC2-SIBUG113 New Testament in Boguto.
Bugotu language and anthropology, Solomon Islands, Santa Isobel.
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Typescript. Notice of a reprint of this book by the British & Foreign Bible Society. The Sower News Bulletin.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG113
Date range 12 April 1960    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG113 Series SIBUG
AC2-SIBUG201 Standard list of vocabularies in Bugotu with additional words in the adjoining language Gao.
Bugotu, Gao, St. Isabel Island, S.E. Solomon Islands.
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Typescript/manuscript. The list is incomplete and the informant not named. [English-Bogoto/Gao].

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG201
Date range no date    Quantity 0.05 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG201 Series SIBUG
AC2-SIBUG202 A grammar of the language of Bogotu, Isabel Island, Solomon Islands.
Bugotu, Gao, St. Isabel Island, S.E. Solomon Islands.
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Typescript, some annotations by Capell. By W.G. Ivens. Reprinted from Bull., School of Oriental Studies [London University], VII (1) [141]-177.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-SIBUG202
Date range 1933    Quantity 0.19 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier SIBUG202 Series SIBUG
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