Register of the Harold Scheffler Papers MSS 0481

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Title: Harold Scheffler Papers,

Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0481

Contributing Institution: Mandeville Special Collections Library

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 6.9 Linear feet 16 archives boxes, 1 card file box and 7 oversize folders 1,370 online items

Date (inclusive): 1926 - 1981

Abstract: The papers of Harold Scheffler, anthropologist, relate to Scheffler's field research on ambilineal descent groups on Choiseul Island in the Solomon Islands between 1958 and 1961 and to his comparative study of religious revitalization movements, especially the Christian Fellowship Church, conducted on Rendova Island between 1967 and 1968. Scheffler studied social structure, kinship and ethnographic semantics among Varisi language speakers on Choiseul Island (1958-1961), among Baniata language speakers on Rendova Island (1967-1968), and among Simbo islanders (1960). Materials include correspondence with colleagues and students; manuscripts of journal articles and published works; ethnographic data collected in diaries, field notes, genealogies, photographs, and audiorecordings. Also included are grammars, vocabularies and linguistic materials for the Varisi and Baniata languages of the Solomon Islands. Of particular interest are manuscript notes by Bernard Deacon, a British anthropologist, and typescript transcriptions of Deacon's notes by Camilla Wedgwood on Ambrym, an island in Vanuatu. The papers span the period from 1926 to 1981 with the bulk of the material generated between 1958 and 1971. The papers are arranged in eight series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) WRITINGS BY SCHEFFLER, 3) CHOISEUL ISLAND FIELDWORK, 4) RENDOVA ISLAND FIELDWORK, 5) MISCELLANEOUS FIELDWORK, 6) WRITINGS OF OTHERS, 7) PHOTOGRAPHS, and 8) AUDIORECORDINGS.

General Physical Description note: (16 archives boxes, 1 card file box and 7 oversize folders)

creator: Scheffler, Harold W.

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Harold Scheffler Papers, MSS 0481. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.

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Biography

Harold Walter Scheffler was born on October 24, 1932, in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Southeast Missouri State College in 1952 and transferred to the University of Missouri the following year. His studies were interrupted by military service with the United States Army, 1954-1955, after which he returned to the University of Missouri and received a B.A. degree in anthropology and sociology in 1956.

Scheffler then went on to the University of Chicago for graduate work in anthropology, receiving an M.A. in 1957. He continued in the doctoral program at Chicago and, with the assistance of a Carnegie Corporation Tri-Institutional Pacific Program grant (1958-1960) and a Fulbright grant (1960-1961), conducted eighteen months of fieldwork (1958-1961) on the island of Choiseul in what was then called the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1963, having submitted a dissertation entitled "Kindred and Kin Groups in Choiseul Island Social Structure" (later published in 1965 as Choiseul Island Social Structure).

Scheffler studied social structure and kinship on Choiseul Island between November 1958 and April 1961. He spent most of his time in the village of Voza in the Tepazaka District, but also lived on the opposite side of the island in Ogo village in the Varisi District and made trips to Simbo Island. Scheffler learned and conducted this research in the Varisi language.

After returning from Choiseul, Scheffler taught at the University of Connecticut (1961-1962) and Bryn Mawr College (1962-1963). He joined the Yale University faculty in 1963, and has remained there throughout his career.

Post-doctoral fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation enabled him to return to the Solomon Islands. Between 1967 and 1968, Scheffler conducted research on the island of Rendova as the principal investigator in a study entitled "Revitalization Movements in the British Solomons," which compared religious movements in three locations. This project examined the separatist Christian Fellowship Church on New Georgia Island (fieldwork conducted by Frances Hine Harwood), the South Seas Evangelical Mission in the Langalanga Lagoon area of Malaita (fieldwork conducted by Matthew Cooper) and the participation of people on Rendova Island in revitalization movements (fieldwork conducted by Scheffler).

Scope and Content of Collection

The papers of Harold Scheffler relate to Scheffler's ethnographic research in the Solomon Islands, specifically his dissertation fieldwork on Choiseul Island conducted between 1958 and 1961 and his comparative study of religious revitalization movements and separatist churches on Rendova Island between 1967 and 1968. Scheffler studied social structure and kinship, particularly ambilineal descent groups, among Varisi language speakers on Choiseul Island (1958-1961), among Baniata language speakers on Rendova Island (1967-1968) and among Simbo islanders (1960). Materials include correspondence with colleagues and students; manuscripts of journal articles and published works; ethnographic data collected in diaries, field notes, genealogies, photographs, and audiorecordings; and, writings of others related to his areas of research. Also included are grammars, vocabularies and linguistic materials for the Varisi and Baniata languages. The papers occupy five linear feet and are arranged in eight series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) WRITINGS BY SCHEFFLER, 3) CHOISEUL ISLAND FIELDWORK, 4) RENDOVA ISLAND FIELDWORK, 5) MISCELLANEOUS FIELDWORK, 6) WRITINGS OF OTHERS, 7) PHOTOGRAPHS, and 8) AUDIORECORDINGS.

SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE

The CORRESPONDENCE series is arranged alphabetically and includes letters from anthropologists John Barnes, William Davenport and Murray Groves; the ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, and two of Scheffler's graduate students, Matthew Cooper and Frances Harwood. There are also letters from government offices in the Solomon Islands, the National Science Foundation and Yale University related to Scheffler's research and travel.

SERIES 2: WRITINGS BY SCHEFFLER

The WRITINGS BY SCHEFFLER series contains manuscripts of Scheffler's journal articles and published works related to the Solomon Islands, including a typescript of his dissertation entitled Kindred and Kin Groups in Choiseul Island Social Structure (1963) and drafts for articles on kinship, land tenure and separatist church movements. Also included are proposals for research grant applications to fund his fieldwork and analysis. The materials are arranged alphabetically by title.

SERIES 3: CHOISEUL ISLAND FIELDWORK

The CHOISEUL ISLAND FIELDWORK series documents Scheffler's dissertation field work, contains field notes and typescript summaries, and is arranged in five subseries: A) Diaries, B) Field Notes, C) Genealogies and Kinship Charts, D) Varisi Language Material, and E) Maps.

A) The Diaries (1958-1961) contain Scheffler's day-to-day, handwritten entries describing places visited, contacts made, conversations with informants, new words or usages, and records of expenses during his fieldwork on Choiseul.

B) The Field Notes subseries contains manuscript notebooks with dated entries of ethnographic information from informants, typescript notes that organize, synthesize and summarize the field data on land tenure in the notebooks, and typed notecards with field data classified according to the Human Relations Area Files coding system. The notecards also include a sociological census of Choiseul Island, notes on cases brought before the native courts, notes on readings, and a bibliography.

C) The Genealogies and Kinship Charts subseries contains notebooks and charts with lineage names, relationships and explanations of terminology.

D) The Varisi Language Material subseries contains comparative word lists, a dictionary, descriptions of grammatical forms, and several examples of text. Varisi is one of the six languages on Choiseul Island and spoken by many groups outside the Varisi District.

E) The Maps subseries contains seven blueprint drainage maps with Scheffler's (?) annotations of topographical features, villages and trails.

SERIES 4: RENDOVA ISLAND FIELDWORK

The RENDOVA ISLAND FIELDWORK series document's Scheffler's fieldwork and study of revitalization movements and is arranged in five subseries: A) Diaries, B) Field Notes, C) Genealogies and Kinship Charts, D) Baniata Language Material, and E) Maps.

A) Diaries (1967-1968). The Rendova diaries contain travel accounts, observations on the Christian Fellowship Church, its leader Silas Eto (Holy Mama) and Frances Harwood's field work.

B) The Notebooks contain census data and genealogical information collected on the Baniata side and Rouro.

C) The Genealogies and Kinship Charts subseries contains a single set of kinship charts.

D) The Baniata Language Materials subseries contains typescript comparative word lists, descriptions of grammatical forms, exercises and a vocabulary compiled by Arthur Capell.

E) This subseries contains two commercial maps of Rendova Island (ca. 1965) with annotations and one commercial map of the Solomon Islands group (1951).

SERIES 5: MISCELLANEOUS FIELDWORK

The MISCELLANEOUS FIELDWORK series contains notebooks with general observations and bibliographies on the Solomon Islands, the specific island of Simbo (1960) and Ambrym Island in Vanuatu.

SERIES 6: WRITINGS OF OTHERS

Most of the material in the WRITINGS OF OTHERS series relates to separatist church movements, including Frances Harwood's research on the Christian Fellowship Church, an instance of a schismatic church in Melanesia. Also included are handwritten notes, largely related to Ambrym Island, made by British anthropologist Bernard Deacon (1903-1927) and typescript copies of Deacon's notes made by Camilla Wedgwood.

SERIES 7: PHOTOGRAPHS

The PHOTOGRAPHS series is arranged according to periods of fieldwork in two subseries: A) 1958-1961 and B) 1967-1968.

A) The first subseries contains slides and black-and-white photoprints taken between 1958 and 1961 on Choiseul Island, but also on side trips to Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island and Simbo Island. The images document village life in Voza, Scheffler's base on Choiseul; shell money (kesa) and its surrounding rituals; war making; music making; and, people. The Simbo Island images depict skull houses and shrines.

B) The second subseries contains images documenting the religious revitalization movements and activities on Rendova, Choiseul, and New Georgia Islands, especially Paradise (Menakasapa) village and the Christian Fellowship Church and its leader, Silas Eto.

SERIES 8: AUDIORECORDINGS

The AUDIO RECORDINGS series is arranged in two subseries: A) Choiseul and B) Rendova. Within each subseries the recordings contain recitations of texts, pan flute music and songs.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Deacon, Bernard, 1903-1927 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks etc

Scheffler, Harold W. -- Archives

Choiseul (Solomon Islands)--Pictorial works

Christianity--Solomon Islands

Ethnology--Solomon Islands--Choiseul

Kinship--Solomon Islands--Choiseul

Land tenure--Solomon Islands--Choiseul

Malekula (Vanuatu)

Oceania

Rendova (Solomon Islands)--Pictorical works

Social change--Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands--History--20th century--Sources

Solomon Islands--Languages

Solomon Islands--Pictorial works

Solomon Islands--Religious life and customs

Solomon Islands--Social Conditions

Solomon Islands--Social Life and customs

CORRESPONDENCE

Box 1, Folder 1

Alexander Turnbull Library 1960 - 1966

Box 1, Folder 2

B - Miscellaneous

Box 1, Folder 3

British Solomon Islands Protectorate. Western Pacific High Commission 1966 - 1967

Box 1, Folder 4

Caughey, John L. 1966

Box 1, Folder 5

Cooper, Matthew 1966 - 1971

Box 1, Folder 6

Davenport, William 1959 - 1966

Box 1, Folder 7

E - Miscellaneous

Box 1, Folder 8

G - Miscellaneous

Box 1, Folder 9

Groves, Murray 1963

Box 1, Folder 10

H - Miscellaneous

Box 1, Folder 11

Harwood, Frances H. 1966 - 1968

Box 1, Folder 12

K - Miscellaneous

Box 1, Folder 13

L - Miscellaneous

Box 1, Folder 14

Lomax, Alan

General note

May 9, 1963. Includes list, "Materials on Tapes Recorded by H. W. Scheffler in Western British Solomon Islands." See also SERIES 8A.

Box 1, Folder 15

M - Miscellaneous

Box 1, Folder 16

N - Miscellaneous

Box 1, Folder 17

National Science Foundation 1966

Box 1, Folder 18

O - Miscellaneous

Box 1, Folder 19

Page, Bill 1966 - 1967

Box 1, Folder 20

R - Miscellaneous

Box 1, Folder 21

S - Miscellaneous

Box 1, Folder 22

Tippett, Alan R. 1966

Box 1, Folder 23

Y - Miscellaneous

Box 1, Folder 24

Yale University 1966 - 1967

Box 1, Folder 25

Unidentified correspondents

WRITINGS BY SCHEFFLER

Box 1, Folder 26

Ambilateral Kin Groups

General note

Undated typescript.

Box 1, Folder 27

Baniata Kinship Terminology

General note

Undated. Incomplete typescript and handwritten notes.

Box 1, Folder 28

Break-Away Churches in the Solomon Islands

General note

Undated. Manuscript with typescript notes.

Box 1, Folder 29

Choiseul Manuscript. Figures

General note

Numbered and captioned prints of Baukolo and Voza villages, showing structures, people and activities, burial urns (dolos) and shrines, shell money (kesa) counting, and music making with pan pipes. Also includes loose prints.

Box 1, Folder 30

For Conflict Book

General note

Single handwritten page, undated.

Box 1, Folder 31

Fulbright Grant Application material 1959

General note

Includes draft curriculum vitae, statement giving educational background and summary of proposed analysis and write-up of dissertation.

Box 1, Folder 32

Kindred and Kin Groups in Choiseul Island Social Structure

General note

Dissertation, March, 1963. Chapters 1 - 3. See also SERIES 3B, draft introduction and outline for dissertation in "Residential Histories" notebook.

Box 1, Folder 33

Kindred and Kin Groups in Choiseul Island Social Structure

General note

Dissertation, March, 1963. Chapters 4 - 7.

Box 1, Folder 34

Kindred and Kin Groups in Choiseul Island Social Structure

General note

Abstract of dissertation.

Box 1, Folder 35

Kindred and Kin Groups in Simbo Island Social Structure 1962

Box 1, Folder 36

Political Finance in Melanesia: Big Men and Disks of Shell 1965

General note

Published in NATURAL HISTORY, December, 1965.

Box 2, Folder 1

Revitalization Movements in the British Solomons 1966 - 1967

General note

Application for Research Grant, 1966. Includes an "Accounts" notebook for 1967.

Box 2, Folder 2

Revitalization Movements in the British Solomons 1966 - 1968

General note

Correspondence.

Box 2, Folder 3

Revitalization Movements in the British Solomons 1966 - 1969

General note

Requests for funding to the National Science Foundation.

Box 2, Folder 4

Separatist Church in the Solomons

General note

Undated draft. Includes notes.

Box 2, Folder 5

Separatist Church in the Solomons

General note

May 5, 1969. Notes for a talk.

Box 2, Folder 6

Social Consequences of Peace: Choiseul Island 1963

Box 2, Folder 7

Solomon Islands: Seeking a New Land Custom 1971

General note

In LAND TENURE IN THE PACIFIC, edited by Ron Crocombe. Annotated typescript draft and copy. Includes cover letter to Crocombe, July 31, 1965.

Box 2, Folder 8

Solomon Islands: Seeking a New Land Custom 1971

General note

In LAND TENURE IN THE PACIFIC, edited by Ron Crocombe. Research notes on land tenure cases in Choiseul. Includes notecards with manuscript maps.

Box 2, Folder 9, Oversize FB26901

Solomon Islands: Seeking a New Land Custom 1971

General note

In LAND TENURE IN THE PACIFIC, edited by Ron Crocombe. Research maps.

Box 2, Folder 10

Solomon Islands: Seeking a New Land Custom 1971

General note

In LAND TENURE IN THE PACIFIC, edited by Ron Crocombe. Research material includes correspondence, copies of legal documents and reports.

Box 2, Folder 11

Theoretical Implications, Chapter 7

General note

Undated typescript.

Box 2, Folder 12

Unidentified comments on papers

Box 2, Folder 13

Unidentified notes on kinship and languages

CHOISEUL ISLAND FIELDWORK

Diaries

Box 2, Folder 14

Choiseul Diary #1

General note

November 12, 1958 - April 22, 1959. Includes Choiseul Notes, begun October 13, 1958.

Box 2, Folder 15

Choiseul Diary #2

General note

April 24 - August 30, 1959.

Box 3, Folder 1

Choiseul Diary #3

General note

September 1 - December 12, 1959. Includes loose pages dated April 8, 1960.

Box 3, Folder 2

Choiseul Diary #4

General note

December 13, 1959 - March 12, 1960.

Box 3, Folder 3

Daily Journal, Choiseul

General note

February 17 - April 8, 1961.

Field Notes

Box 3, Folder 4

Analysis Notes

General note

Notebook dated October 27, 1960 - November 6, 1962.

Box 3, Folder 5

Choiseul Field Notes - Book 1

General note

Notebook dated November 21, 1958 - April 18, 1959.

Box 3, Folder 6

Choiseul Field Notes - Book 2

General note

General Notes. Notebook dated April 20 - July 8, 1959.

Box 3, Folder 7

Choiseul Field Notes - Book 3

General note

General Notes. Notebook dated July 13 - October 21, 1959.

Box 3, Folder 8

Choiseul Field Notes - Book 4

General note

General Notes - Varisi Side. Notebook dated November 5 - November 22, 1959.

Box 3, Folder 9

Choiseul Field Notes - Book 5

General note

General Notes - Varisi Side. Notebook dated November 23, 1959 - January 5, 1960.

Box 4, Folder 1

Choiseul Field Notes - Book 5

General note

Second trip. Notebook dated February 18 - April 5, 1961.

Box 4, Folder 2

Field Notes - Choiseul Island, British Solomon Islands Protectorate

General note

November, 1958 - March, 1960. [Version 1.] Typescript notes.

Box 4, Folder 3

Field Notes - Choiseul Island, British Solomon Islands Protectorate

General note

November, 1958 - March, 1960. [Version 2.] Typescript notes. Includes equipment list.

Box 4, Folder 4

Household Census Data - Choiseul No. 1

General note

Undated notebook.

Box 5, Folder 1

Human Relations Area Files classification of field notes

General note

Undated notecard file. Also includes "Sociological Census - Choiseul Island," "Native Court Cases," notes on readings, and a bibliography.

Box 6, Folder 1

Land Tenure Field Notes. Choiseul Island, British Solomon Island Protectorate 1958 - 1960

General note

[Version 1] Typescript notes.

Box 6, Folder 2

Land Tenure Field Notes. Choiseul Island, British Solomon Island Protectorate 1958 - 1960

General note

[Version 2] Typescript notes.

Box 6, Folder 3

Native Courts. Choiseul. British Solomon Islands Protectorate

General note

Court records. Notebook with cases dated 1950-1960.

Box 6, Folder 4

Native Courts and Councils. Western Solomons. Notes No. 1

General note

Notebook with cases dated 1954-1958.

Box 6, Folder 5

Plant names, in local language, with descriptions and how they are used

General note

Undated notebook pages.

Box 6, Folder 6

Residential Histories, Choiseul

General note

Undated notebook. Includes draft introduction and outline of Scheffler's dissertation, with working title "Some Aspects of Choiseul Social Structure: Group Formation and Operation in an Ambilateral Society." See also Series 2, WRITINGS, "Kindred and Kin Groups in Choiseul Island Social Structure."

Box 6, Folder 7

Social Structure Field Notes. Choiseul Island, British Solomon Islands Protectorate

General note

November, 1958 - March, 1960. [Version 1]. Typescript notes.

Box 6, Folder 8

Social Structure Field Notes. Choiseul Island, British Solomon Islands Protectorate

General note

November, 1958 - March, 1960. [Version 2]. Typescript notes.

Genealogies and Kinship

Box 6, Folder 9

Genealogies, etc. Choiseul. No. 1

General note

Notebook dated November 26, 1958 - March 27, 1959.

Box 6, Folder 10

Genealogies, etc. Choiseul. No. 2

General note

Notebook dated April 6, 1959 - November 4, 1959.

Box 6, Folder 11

Genealogies, etc. Choiseul. No. 3. Varisi Side

General note

Notebook dated November 16, 1959 - December 16, 1959.

Box 6, Folder 12

Genealogies, etc. Choiseul. No. 4

General note

Notebook dated December 17, 1959 - December 26, 1959.

Box 7, Folder 1, Oversize FB26902

Lineages - Genealogies. Choiseul

General note

Charts.

Box 7, Folder 2, Oversize MC03508

Maximal Lineages - Genealogies. Varisi Language District, Choiseul

Box 7, Folder 3

Personal Genealogies. Choiseul

General note

Typed sheets dated May 5-6, 1959. Includes typed list of equipment and handwritten notes.

Box 7, Folder 4, Oversize MC03509

Skeleton Genealogies of Villages. Choiseul

General note

Includes village maps.

Varisi Language Material

Box 7, Folder 5

Choiseul Languages: Varisi, Taula, Babatana - Comparative Word Lists

General note

Includes English translations. Annotated typescript. [Version 1].

Box 7, Folder 6

Choiseul Languages: Varisi, Taula, Babatana - Comparative Word Lists

General note

Includes English translations. Annotated typescript. [Version 2].

Box 7, Folder 7

Lexicostatistical comparisons

General note

Word lists dated 1959-1960. Choiseul Island languages and dialects and those of several other islands.

Box 7, Folder 8

Lexicostatistical comparisons, Varisi and Babatana with English

General note

Typescript in English with equivalents in Choiseul languages.

Box 7, Folder 9

Linguistic Notes, Choiseul

General note

Undated notebook.

Box 7, Folder 10

Texts, Choiseul

General note

Notebook dated February, 1961 - April, 1961.

Box 7, Folder 11

Varisi Dictionary. Book No. 1. From VARISI DICTIONARY of William [?]. Begun 1953

General note

Notebook.

Box 7, Folder 12

Varisi Language. Grammar

General note

Undated notebook and notecards.

Box 7, Folder 13

Varisi Language. Workbook

General note

Undated notebook.

Box 7, Folder 14

Varisi Language, Choiseul. Translated texts

General note

English typescript word lists and typescript Varisi texts with interlineal English translations, dated October 31, 1959 - November 29, 1959. Also includes two handwritten texts, Varisi and English.

Box 8, Folder 1

Varisi Language, Choiseul

General note

Typescript in English with handwritten Varisi equivalents. Includes word lists and phrases.

Box 8, Folder 2

Varisi Language, Choiseul Island, British Solomon Islands Protectorate. Collected by H. Scheffler 1958 - 1961

General note

Typescript, English and Varisi.

Box 8, Folder 3

Varisi Language material

General note

Undated notes and worksheets.

Maps

Box 8, Folder 4, Oversize MC03510

Choiseul maps

General note

Seven blueprint maps indicating drainage systems, topographical features, villages and trails.

RENDOVA ISLAND FIELDWORK

Diaries

Box 8, Folder 5

Rendova 1

General note

Notebook dated July 7, 1967 - October 29, 1967.

Box 8, Folder 6

Rendova 2

General note

Notebook dated November 9, 1967 - February 20, 1968.

Field Notes

Box 8, Folder 7

History of the Succession of Baniata Chiefs (according to John Kari, et al.) August 12 1967

Box 8, Folder 8

Rendova Census, 1967. Baniata Side

General note

Notebook.

Box 8, Folder 9

Rendova Census. Book 2. Rouro 1967

General note

Notebook.

Box 8, Folder 10

Rendova Notes, No. 1

General note

Notebook dated July 26, 1967 - November 23, 1967.

Box 9, Folder 1

Rendova Notes No. 2

General note

Notebook dated ca. 1967.

Genealogies and Kinship

Box 9, Folder 2, Oversize FB26903

Miscellaneous Genealogies 1967

Baniata Language Material

Box 9, Folder 3

Baniata Language. Miscellaneous handwritten word lists and notes

General note

Undated.

Box 9, Folder 4

Baniata Language. Rendova Island, British Solomon Islands 1967 - 1968

General note

Typescript word lists, English/Baniata.

Box 9, Folder 5

Baniata Language. Rendova Island, British Solomons. Section 1, Basic Vocabulary (Entire Swadesh Test List) 1967 - 1968

General note

Typescript, English/Baniata.

Box 9, Folder 6

Baniata Language

General note

Undated typescript with enumeration, noun class relationships, pronouns, and simple declarative sentences.

Box 9, Folder 7

Baniata Language. Word List and Paradigms

General note

[Version 1]. Typescript, Baniata/Roviana. Includes printed pages from the BANIATA LANGUAGE OF RENDOVA ISLAND, by W. H. L. Waterhouse, 1927 [?].

Box 9, Folder 8

Baniata Language. Word List and Paradigms

General note

[Version 2]. Typescript word lists, English/Baniata/Roviana.

Box 9, Folder 9

Baniata Language Notes

General note

Notebook dated July 15, 1967.

Box 9, Folder 10

Baniata Language Workbook

General note

Undated notebook.

Box 9, Folder 11

Baniata Vocabulary. Compiled by Arthur Capell

General note

Undated notebook.

Maps

Box 9, Folder 12, Oversize MC03511

Rendova Island. Maps 1951 - 1965

General note

With Scheffler's annotations. Includes map of the British Solomon Islands.

MISCELLANEOUS FIELDWORK

Box 9, Folder 13

Ambryn [Ambrym, Vanuatu]. Book 1. Genealogies, etc

General note

Notebook dated April 28 - May 5, 1968.

Box 10, Folder 1

Bibliographic Notes No. 1. Choiseul and Western Solomons

General note

Undated notebook.

Box 10, Folder 2

Notes on Hocart's M.S. Roviana and Simbo

General note

Undated notebook with typescript and handwritten notes.

Box 10, Folder 3

Simbo Genealogies, No. 1. Simbo Island, British Solomon Islands Protectorate

General note

Notebook dated March 30 - April 5, 1960.

Box 10, Folder 4

Simbo Notes No. 1

General note

Notebook dated March 26 - May 5, 1960.

Box 10, Folder 5

Solomon Islands Copra Production (No Plantation)

General note

Handwritten notes with production figures for 1962-1966.

Box 10, Folder 6

Solomon Islands Notes and Bibliography

General note

Expense notebooks for fieldwork on Choiseul and Rendova. Includes loose handwritten notes.

WRITINGS OF OTHERS

Box 10, Folder 7

Capell, Arthur. "Lexicostatistical Study of the Languages of Choiseul Island, British Solomon Islands" 1968

General note

Published in PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS OF MELANESIA NO. 1. PACIFIC LINGUISTICS. Series A, no. 15.

Box 10, Folder 8

Christian Fellowship Church. Birth and baptismal records for villages of Baniata and Hopono 1914 - 1964

Box 10, Folder 9

Cooper, Matthew. "Ethics in a Melanesian Society"

General note

Undated. Includes typescript version, "Langalanga Ethics," paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 21, 1969.

Box 10, Folder 10

Deacon, Bernard. New Hebrides [Ambrym, Vanuatu] notes 1926 - 1927

General note

Includes Scheffler's provenance note: "Typescript and handwritten notes once held by Camilla Wedgwood and given to Harold Scheffler by E. P. Elkin in Sydney, Australia, in the 1970s."

Box 10, Folder 11

Eto, Silas. "Holy Mama's Autobiography" 1967

General note

Includes copy of a handwritten version in the Roviana language and typescript English translation.

Box 11, Folder 1

Harwood, Frances. "The Christian Fellowship Church"

General note

Typescript histories provided by informants, ca. 1967-1968.

Box 11, Folder 2

Harwood, Frances. "The Christian Fellowship Church" 1966 - 1968

General note

Includes typescript notes, interviews and correspondence.

Box 11, Folder 3

Harwood, Frances. "The Christian Fellowship Church: A Revitalization Movement in Melanesia" 1968

General note

Typescript presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Seattle, Washington, November, 1968.

Box 11, Folder 4

Harwood, Frances. "Research Proposal for Fieldwork on New Georgia, British Solomon Islands Protectorate" 1966

General note

Typescript. See also SERIES 2: Revitalization Movements in the British Solomons.

Box 11, Folder 5

Tanavalu, Levi. "Voza Village, Tepazaka District, Choiseul Island"

General note

Undated typescript.

Box 11, Folder 6

Tuza, Esau. "The Demolition of Christian Church Buildings by Ancestors: A Personal Observation of ..." 1981

General note

Presented at the Seminar on Indigenous Christianity in Australia, Brisbane, Australia, August 10-14, 1981.

Box 11, Folder 7

Tuza, Esau. "Life, an Attitude to Living: A Cultural Viewpoint from the Solomon Islands" 1981

General note

Presented at the Seminar on the Christian Understanding of Health, Healing and Wholeness, Papua, New Guinea, October 23-29, 1981.

Box 11, Folder 8

Tuza, Esau. "Overseas Church and the Christian Fellowship Church"

General note

Undated typescript.

PHOTOGRAPHS

1958-1961

Box 11, Folder 9

Choiseul. Activities and portraits. Includes construction, counting shell money (kesa), fishing, music making, urns (dolos) for burial. (Prints) 1958-1961

Woman and child by house, in village, 1958-1961