The material culture of the Teop people on Bougainville: Texts on plants, house building, canoes and fishing

Ulrike Mosel

doi:10.5281/

The material culture of the Teop people on Bougainville: Texts on plants, house building, canoes and fishing

Authors

Ulrike Mosel

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/

Synopsis

In this text collection, nine Teop authors and one Teop graphic artist document the use of palms, trees, bamboo and other plants in their material culture.

The book consists of six main parts. Following the introductory chapters on the Teop language and the historical context of the text collection in Part I, Parts II to V contain 32 Teop texts with illustrations and English translations on the topics of plants, house-building, canoe-building and traditional fishing techniques. Part VI provides all the Teop texts and their translations, with an additional linguistic analysis and glossing of each word in interlinearized format.

The chapters in Part I and the brief introductions to the texts in Parts II to V are by the editor, who also produced the English translations in collaboration with the Teop authors, as well as the linguistic analysis and glossing in Part VI.

Chapters

I Introduction: The Teop language documentation project
The Teop people and their language
The Teop language documentation and the content of this volume
The basic linguistic features of the Teop language
II Plants used for artefacts
Introduction
O overe – The coconut palm
O atovo – The sago palm
O sinivi – The canoe tree (Blackboard Tree)
O baneo visoas – The young breadfruit tree
O poosusu – The sea poison tree
Koverau, kururu, koopu – Three kinds of bamboo
Kara naono – Vines, aerial roots, fibres and strings
O kara roge – Hibiscus fibres for making strings
Karaa – Pandanus
Taovu – The giant pandanus and the hood
III Building houses from plant materials
Introduction
A sinoo na inu – The frame of the house
A kiu vaa teo atovo – The work on the sago palm thatch
O kovuaka – The top thatch sheet
A takinima – The woven bamboo wall
O paranda – The floor
IV Dugout canoes with outriggers
Introduction
O sinivi suuna – The indigenous canoe
O aga – The outrigger float
O sinivi potee – The imported canoe called potee
V Fishing techniques
Introduction
A goroto – The turtle
Kave goroto – The turtle net
A vaahoa kave goroto – The launching of the turtle net
Kakavei – The bamboo frame net
Varigomo – A kind of net fishing at low tide
Seige – Fishing with a net fixed on two mangrove poles
Tanaa – Fishing in a group during low tide
Vavaaiku – Angling with a swinging bait
Vavaatoa – Kite fishing
Vagana haopi – Catching wrasses by hand
Paka suva – Fish poisoning leaves
Ana suva – Fish poisoning roots
Suvasuva kokobus – Fish poisoning with sea cucumbers
Hovuhovu iobo – Digging out sea-sausages
VI The glossed Teop Texts
Glossed Texts

The Teop people and their language

Chapter 1
The Teop language documentation and the content of this volume

Chapter 2
The basic linguistic features of the Teop language

Chapter 3
Introduction

Chapter 4
O overe – The coconut palm

Chapter 5
O atovo – The sago palm

Chapter 6
O sinivi – The canoe tree (Blackboard Tree)

Chapter 7
O baneo visoas – The young breadfruit tree

Chapter 8
O poosusu – The sea poison tree

Chapter 9
Koverau, kururu, koopu – Three kinds of bamboo

Chapter 10
Kara naono – Vines, aerial roots, fibres and strings

Chapter 11
O kara roge – Hibiscus fibres for making strings

Chapter 12
Karaa – Pandanus

Chapter 13
Taovu – The giant pandanus and the hood

Chapter 14
Introduction

Chapter 15
A sinoo na inu – The frame of the house

Chapter 16
A kiu vaa teo atovo – The work on the sago palm thatch

Chapter 17
O kovuaka – The top thatch sheet

Chapter 18
A takinima – The woven bamboo wall

Chapter 19
O paranda – The floor

Chapter 20
Introduction

Chapter 21
O sinivi suuna – The indigenous canoe

Chapter 22
O aga – The outrigger float

Chapter 23
O sinivi potee – The imported canoe called potee

Chapter 24
Introduction

Chapter 25
A goroto – The turtle

Chapter 26
Kave goroto – The turtle net

Chapter 27
A vaahoa kave goroto – The launching of the turtle net

Chapter 28
Kakavei – The bamboo frame net

Chapter 29
Varigomo – A kind of net fishing at low tide

Chapter 30
Seige – Fishing with a net fixed on two mangrove poles

Chapter 31
Tanaa – Fishing in a group during low tide

Chapter 32
Vavaaiku – Angling with a swinging bait

Chapter 33
Vavaatoa – Kite fishing

Chapter 34
Vagana haopi – Catching wrasses by hand

Chapter 35
Paka suva – Fish poisoning leaves

Chapter 36
Ana suva – Fish poisoning roots

Chapter 37
Suvasuva kokobus – Fish poisoning with sea cucumbers

Chapter 38
Hovuhovu iobo – Digging out sea-sausages

Chapter 39
Glossed Texts

Chapter 40

Author Biography

Ulrike Mosel

Ulrike Mosel is a Professor Emerita at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, Germany. After studying Semitic languages, she specialised in Austronesian languages. Her book publications include a collection of Tolai texts (1977); an analyzis of the mutual influence between Tolai and Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea (1980, 1984) and, together with Even Hovdhaugen, the Samoan Reference Grammar (1992). Since 2000 she has been working on the documentation of the Teop language in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea and published A Multifunctional Teop Dictionary in 2019. Her articles focus on corpus-based grammaticography and lexicography.