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Series VBANMT - Vanuatu - Banks Islands and Mota Island
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Date Rangec. 1890 - 1961
Quantity0.43 cm, 8 items
ProvenanceCapell, Arthur
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This series contains material from the Banks Islands and Mota Island, concentrating on local languages of Mota and Banks. It includes sentence in Mota, comparative vocabulary lists (English-Mota-Tegel, and English-Mota-Tekel-Mosin-Vuras-Sasar-Lakona-Gog-Metlar-Motlar-Volow-Ureparapara-Lo), biblical extracts in Mota, and typed papers on the Mota language (one in German).

The Banks Islands of the Îles Banks are a group of islands in northern Vanuatu. The Banks Islands were charted by Matthew Flinders and named in honour of Sir Joseph Banks. The Banks and Torres islands are in the province of Torba.

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

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AC2-VBANMT101 Mota used in translation.
Banks Islands/Mota, Vanuatu - Banks Islands
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Typescript. 94 sentences, unknown informant.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VBANMT101
Date range no date    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BANMT101 Series VBANMT
AC2-VBANMT102 English-Mota-Tegel Word List.
Banks Islands/Mota, Vanuatu - Banks Islands
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Manuscript. In Capell's hand. Tegel (Tekel, or Lehali), spoken in north part of Ureparapara Island.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VBANMT102
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BANMT102 Series VBANMT
AC2-VBANMT103 Shared Phonetic Features in the Banks Islands Languages (map) with a comparative word list in English-Mota-Tekel-Mosin-Vuras-Sasar-Lakona-Gog-Metlar-Motlar-Volow-Ureparapara-Lo
Banks Islands/Mota, Vanuatu - Banks Islands
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Drawing and manuscript.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VBANMT103
Date range no date    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BANMT103 Series VBANMT
AC2-VBANMT104 Mota.
Banks Islands/Mota, Vanuatu - Banks Islands
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Manuscript/typescript. 226 item English-Mota vocabulary. In Capell's hand.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VBANMT104
Date range no date    Quantity 0.05 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BANMT104 Series VBANMT
AC2-VBANMT105 Nam Nagkaumtan 15. Luk 12, 16-21: semple hoete.
Banks Islands/Mota, Vanuatu - Banks Islands
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Typescript. Copied from Mota version of Codrington on the Parables.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VBANMT105
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BANMT105 Series VBANMT
AC2-VBANMT106 Answers to queries regarding Banks Is.
Banks Islands/Mota, Vanuatu - Banks Islands
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Manuscript. Unknown missionary response to eight questions circulated by the Rev. Gunn.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VBANMT106
Date range ca 1890    Quantity 0.04 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BANMT106 Series VBANMT
AC2-VBANMT107 Über die Sogenannten Abnormen Heiraten und Ihre Verwandtschaftterminologie auf den Banks-Inseln (Melanesien).
Banks Islands/Mota, Vanuatu - Banks Islands
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Offprint typescript. By Von Günter Geur, Berlin. [Beiträge zum Völkerforschung Hans Damm 65. Geburtstag.] Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerbunde zu Leipzig, Heft ii, pp 171-189. Offprint from the author. Contains Banks I[s] relational terms.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VBANMT107
Date range 1961    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BANMT107 Series VBANMT
AC2-VBANMT108 Mota language.
Banks Islands/Mota, Vanuatu - Banks Islands
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Manuscript and cut in text & photos/drawings. Black exercise book. In Capell's hand. Two parts of a 4-part primer (Part 1 - Reader and Notes; Part 2 - Exercises). Many blank pages. Illustrated. Some insertions.

 Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-VBANMT108
Date range probably 1940s    Quantity 0.18 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BANMT108 Series VBANMT
Published by the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures,
Listed by Peter Newton, Austehc and PARADISEC
HTML edition Nicholas Thieberger
Updated 11 October 2006
http://paradisec.org.au/fieldnotes/VBANMT.htm

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