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Series VNEFAT - Vanuatu - North Efate and Offshore Islands, Nguna Island and Parts of Tongoa and Emwae, Shepherd Isles
North Efatese and dialects, Efatese, Tongoa, Nguna, Emao
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Date Range1866 - c. 1957
Quantity1.44 cm, 26 items
ProvenanceCapell, Arthur
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Located at 16.69° S and 168.36° E in the Pacific Ocean, Efate is an island in The Republic of Vanuatu (Shefa Province). It is the most populous (approx. 50000) island in Vanuatu; in terms of land area (899.5 kmē) Efate is Vanuatu's third largest island. Most inhabitants of Efate live in Port Vila, the national capital. It has a maximum height of 647 m.

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

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AC2-VNEFAT101 Letters to Dr William Gunn from Mr D. Macdonald, Havannah Harbour, Efate.
North Efatese and dialects, Vanuatu - North Efate & offshore islands, Nguna Island & parts of Tongoa & Emwae.
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Manuscript.
a) Land conflicts. Comments on Efatese Grammar. 27 July 1887, pp 1-9.
b) Land conflicts. Answers to Gunn's questions on Efatese grammar, creation myths and other matters. 30 November 1887, pp 10-17.
c) Further answers to Gunn's questions. Details of Efate customs. August 1888, pp 18-21.
d) Comparison of Efatese and Futunese relationship terms. Notes on grammar and orthography. 10 October 1891, pp 22-29.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT101
Date range 27 July 1887 - 10 October 1891    Quantity 0.15 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT101 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT102 Letter to Dr William Gunn from Peter Milne (Dunedin, NZ) with answers to Gunn's questions.
North Efatese and dialects, Vanuatu - North Efate & offshore islands, Nguna Island & parts of Tongoa & Emwae.
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Manuscript. Refers mainly to Nguna language, ritual, population, health, myth.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT102
Date range 1889    Quantity 0.06 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT102 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT103 Letters to Capell from J. Graham Miller, Presbyterian clergyman on Tongoa Island and later at Rapakura, NZ.
North Efatese and dialects, Vanuatu - North Efate & offshore islands, Nguna Island & parts of Tongoa & Emwae.
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Typescript/manuscript.
A) Information about word lists on Efate-Tongoa and Namakuran; also anticipates completion ot Emae-Namakuran list; promises to send primers and other texts.
B) Refers to completed Emae vocabulary. Notes unsettled nature of Emae orthography.
C) Cover letter and notes folio 4 (below).

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT103
Date range 8 June 1946 - 10 July 1946    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT103 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT104 Notes from Rev. J. Graham Miller. Nguna-Efate dialects.
North Efatese and dialects, Vanuatu - North Efate & offshore islands, Nguna Island & parts of Tongoa & Emwae.
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Typescript/manuscript. Transcribed and augmented by Capell (his hand). Erakor-E. Efate-W. Efate-Emau and outlier dialects.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT104
Date range ca 1957    Quantity 0.11 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT104 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT105 Supplementary grammatical materials [in Nguna] compiled by Capell.
North Efatese and dialects, Vanuatu - North Efate & offshore islands, Nguna Island & parts of Tongoa & Emwae.
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Typescript/manuscript. Some notes on the Fila-Mele language of South Efate Island.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT105
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT105 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT106 The Story of the Coconuts - Tongoa.
North Efatese and dialects, Vanuatu - North Efate & offshore islands, Nguna Island & parts of Tongoa & Emwae.
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Typescript. Standard English text. Written by Sale of Meriu, Tongoa.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT106
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT106 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT107 Unidentified language, probably from near Havannah Harbour (HH in text).
North Efatese and dialects, Vanuatu - North Efate & offshore islands, Nguna Island & parts of Tongoa & Emwae.
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Typescript. Psalms 2, 8, 16, 96 and 123. Seems to have been typed by Capell.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT107
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT107 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT108 Nalo in Store anigida, Tongoa. [Rules of Association for a "Church" store on Tongoa].
North Efatese and dialects, Vanuatu - North Efate & offshore islands, Nguna Island & parts of Tongoa & Emwae.
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Typescript. Tongoa-N. Efate with some English Loan words. Gevin the date it was probably sent to Capell by J. Graham Miller.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT108
Date range 12 April 1946    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT108 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT11 The Nguna-Efate dialects.
North Efatese - Nguna, Efate Island, Vanuatu.
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Typescript, annotations by Capell. Monograph or article draft by Arthur Capell.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT11
Date range no date    Quantity 0.42 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VNEFAT11 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT12 Nguna Phonetic Check List
North Efatese - Nguna, Efate Island, Vanuatu.
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Typescript. (compiled by A Capell)

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT12
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VNEFAT12 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT13 Nguna.
North Efatese - Nguna, Efate Island, Vanuatu.
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Manuscript, annotations by Capell. Vocabulary and sentences. Unknown compiler.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT13
Date range no date    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VNEFAT13 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT14 Perturbation of Word Order
North Efatese - Nguna, Efate Island, Vanuatu.
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Typescript/manuscript, some annotations by Capell. (written by A Capell). Plus associated grammatical notes pertaining to Efate-Nguna.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT14
Date range no date    Quantity 0.04 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VNEFAT14 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT15 Story of the One Hundred Years that the Word of God has come to the New Herbrides.
North Efatese - Nguna, Efate Island, Vanuatu.
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Manuscript. (author not identified). Details of mission history, and other aspects of life on Efate. Copy, in pencil, is becoming unreadable and in need of salvage.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT15
Date range no date    Quantity 0.12 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier VNEFAT15 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT201 Tarikpoamata Natuna Manga.
North Efatese, Tongoa, Nguna, Emao, Vanuatu - North Efate Islands and Shepherd Isles.
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Typescript. Taripoamata's Sons Text. Written by Usamwoli, a district school student at Pt. Vila. Dialect (Efate-Tongoan) with English interlinear gloss[ary].

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT201
Date range no date    Quantity 0.05 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT201a Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT201b Edited English version of Taripoamata's Sons.
North Efatese, Tongoa, Nguna, Emao, Vanuatu - North Efate Islands and Shepherd Isles.
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Typescript. Prepared by A. Capell.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT201b
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT201b Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT202 Sesake Sentences.
North Efatese, Tongoa, Nguna, Emao, Vanuatu - North Efate Islands and Shepherd Isles.
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Typescript/manuscript. Extracted by Capell from a booklet prepared by Von der Gabentz (1866). Plus notes by Capell. Sesake is a small island near Emae in the N. Shepherd Isles group.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT202
Date range 1866    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT202 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT203 Nguna. Grammatical notes.
North Efatese, Tongoa, Nguna, Emao, Vanuatu - North Efate Islands and Shepherd Isles.
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Manuscript. In Capell's hand.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT203
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT203 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT204 Draft of Capell's extended review of Nguna Grammar.
North Efatese, Tongoa, Nguna, Emao, Vanuatu - North Efate Islands and Shepherd Isles.
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Typescript (carbon). By Albert J Schütz, University of Hawaii Press (1969). Final version was published in the international journal Linguistics No. 162 (1975).

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT204
Date range no date but after 1970    Quantity 0.07 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT204 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT205 Original texts for Capell's survey.
North Efatese, Tongoa, Nguna, Emao, Vanuatu - North Efate Isles and Shepherd Isles
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Typescript with pencil annotations. Prepared by Usamoli of Tongoa. Final versions are noted in Folio 1 (a), (b) above.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT205
Date range no date    Quantity 0.06 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT205 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT206 Untitled - English-Nguna vocabulary.
North Efatese, Tongoa, Nguna, Emao, Vanuatu - North Efate Isles and Shepherd Isles
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Manuscript. Contains two versions of lists - one by an unknown contributor, the other by Summer Institute of Linguistics researchers.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT206
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT206 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT207 Untitled Tongoa-Efate Notes, prepared by Capell.
North Efatese, Tongoa, Nguna, Emao, Vanuatu - North Efate Isles and Shepherd Isles
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Manuscript. Also discusses Sesake, Makura, Havannah Harbor, Leleppa, Erakor, Eton and Pannangis pronouns.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT207
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT207 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT208 Nguna Relationship Terms.
North Efatese, Tongoa, Nguna, Emao, Vanuatu - North Efate Isles and Shepherd Isles
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Manuscript. By W.V. Milne, Nguna.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT208
Date range c. early 1890s    Quantity 0.04 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT208 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT209 Two notes in English. "The Magic Shell of Nguna" and "Death on Guna".
North Efatese, Tongoa, Nguna, Emao, Vanuatu - North Efate Isles and Shepherd Isles
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Typscript. Extracted from Quarterly Jottings from the New Hebrides.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT209
Date range July 1916    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT209 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT210 Copy of letter to Dr. Miller at Nguna, outlinging the information required in Nguna and nearby dialects.
North Efatese, Tongoa, Nguna, Emao, Vanuatu - North Efate Isles and Shepherd Isles
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Manuscript. Also expresses interest in material in Tongoan, Sesake, Makura and Mae. Cites a list of hymnals and catechisms he would like to acquire.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT210
Date range 1 February 1946    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT210 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT211 Nguna. Grammatical notes in Capell's hand.
North Efatese-Nguna, Vanuatu - Efat[?] Island
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Manuscript. Topics include simple nouns; verbforms; noun adjuncts; verb adjuncts; and particles.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT211
Date range no date    Quantity 0.06 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT211 Series VNEFAT
AC2-VNEFAT212 In Ngunese. A list of publications in the Nguna language - mostly Church/mission literature.
North Efatese-Nguna, Vanuatu - Efat[?] Island
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Manuscript. Some grammatical notes too. Unknown author.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VNEFAT212
Date range 1955    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NEFAT212 Series VNEFAT
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