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Item details
Item ID
AC1-MISC8
Title Arosi (stretched) & Forrest River (stretched)
Description Side 1: Arosi (stretched). Un-stretched version of same audio is in AC1-432-A

Side 2: Forrest River (stretched). Uncertain, may be religious text from [wi:ni:] (?) language.

Slip of paper inside box reads:
"Probably should add to CAPELL_A06 as Misc 8.
Side 1 is Soloman Island language
Side 2 Forrest River ? WA?
But tape is very distorted
Put with A16761 or 2."


AIATSIS Identifier: does not have one - was not archived due to stretching.

[Note: this item was previously given the following description in Nabu - this description does not match the field tape metadata but is kept here as follows:
"Austronesian languages on Tanna and Eromanga Islands, South Vanuatu
Text in S.W. Tanna (Skingo): -- Boy and Coconuts: -- Tanna -- Walesisi = Weasisi = Whitesands language, Eastern Tanna Island. -- Erromanga Prodigal Son LP."]
Origination date 1970-01-01
Origination date free form 1950-1970
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/AC1/MISC8
URL
Collector
Arthur Capell
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Language as given Arosi
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Dialect
Region / village Northwest Makira Province

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Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Nick Fowler-Gilmore
Data Categories primary text
Data Types Sound
Discourse type
Roles Arthur Capell : recorder
DOI 10.4225/72/56E97E861B102
Cite as Arthur Capell (collector), Arthur Capell (recorder), 1970. Arosi (stretched) & Forrest River (stretched). EAF+XML/MPEG/WAV/JPEG/TIFF. AC1-MISC8 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/56E97E861B102
Content Files (16)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
AC1-MISC8-A.eaf application/eaf+xml 4.16 KB
AC1-MISC8-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 22.3 MB 00:24:24.690
AC1-MISC8-A.wav audio/wav 403 MB 00:24:24.680
AC1-MISC8-B.eaf application/eaf+xml 1.47 KB
AC1-MISC8-B.mp3 audio/mpeg 13.6 MB 00:14:55.138
AC1-MISC8-B.wav audio/wav 492 MB 00:14:55.106
AC1-MISC8-IMG_01.jpg image/jpeg 995 KB
AC1-MISC8-IMG_01.tif image/tiff 28.6 MB
AC1-MISC8-IMG_02.jpg image/jpeg 948 KB
AC1-MISC8-IMG_02.tif image/tiff 28.6 MB
AC1-MISC8-IMG_03.jpg image/jpeg 1.05 MB
AC1-MISC8-IMG_03.tif image/tiff 28.6 MB
AC1-MISC8-IMG_04.jpg image/jpeg 1.18 MB
AC1-MISC8-IMG_04.tif image/tiff 28.6 MB
AC1-MISC8-IMG_05.jpg image/jpeg 1.06 MB
AC1-MISC8-IMG_05.tif image/tiff 28.6 MB
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Collection Information
Collection ID AC1
Collection title Arthur Capell recording collection
Description Recordings from a wide range of languages across South-east Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, North America and Europe.
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Access Information
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View/Download access Aaron Wade
Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Data access narrative
Metadata
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