This collection of Tales and Song Texts was made during a stay in Alu and Mono, Bougainville Strait, Western Solomon Islands in 1908-9 for ethnological research. Most of them were taken down from the dictation of the Mono-Alu man Bitiai, a blind man, son of the late chief Big Gorai. The song texts were given from dictation without the music. In the case of eight of the tales, the author had no Mono text. Many of the tales though gathered by Wheeler in Alu or in Mono, come from outside the islands in the Bougainville Strait, from Buim (South Bougainville). Mono is known as Treasure Island, Alu as Shorthand Island; with Fauru they may be grouped as the islands of the Bougainville Strait.
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At Lofang (on West Coast of Alu, near Faisi) : the elder brother wan lazy in the garden, but the younger worked hard. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
verbal subst, syllabic reduplication, iua male, quoth the chief, hypothetical prefix, fornicatus est, following quoted words, relative prefix, thy pig, future prefixes, passive prefix, causative prefix, thy namesake, singular prefix, possessive suffix, plural object, ethic dative, denoting place, one day the chief, verbal prefix, reduplicated form, present tale, verbal suffix Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Alu, Komalala Komakiki, Tiong Tanutanu, Admiralty Islands, Little Pakomani, Solomon Islands, Big Pakomani, King Victoria, New Guinea, Old Fauru, Higher Animal Beings, Tukena Lauvesa, Vanua Lava, Apaapa Sibubuu, Bego the Maker New!
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At Lofang (on West Coast of Alu, near Faisi) : the elder brother wan lazy in the garden, but the younger worked hard. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
verbal subst, syllabic reduplication, iua male, quoth the chief, hypothetical prefix, fornicatus est, following quoted words, relative prefix, thy pig, future prefixes, passive prefix, causative prefix, thy namesake, singular prefix, possessive suffix, plural object, ethic dative, denoting place, one day the chief, verbal prefix, reduplicated form, present tale, verbal suffix Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Alu, Komalala Komakiki, Tiong Tanutanu, Admiralty Islands, Little Pakomani, Solomon Islands, Big Pakomani, King Victoria, New Guinea, Old Fauru, Higher Animal Beings, Tukena Lauvesa, Vanua Lava, Apaapa Sibubuu, Bego the Maker New!
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