Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1960 - 1984 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
8 boxes of audio recordings on reel to reel tapes and compact discs
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Clemens Lambertus (Bert) Voorhoeve joined the Australian National University as a research fellow in Anthropology and Sociology, Research School of Pacific Studies in November 1965. He was appointed to Fellow in the Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies from March 1968, and promoted to Senior Fellow in 1974. Voorhoeve collected linguistic field recordings between 1960 and 1980s on languages in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Voorhoeve retired in 1988.
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This series has not been processed.
Recordings of language data (narratives, myths, wordlists, conversation) and of music from Papua New Guinea, the North Moluccas (Indonesia) and the Solomon Islands.
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Use recordings on PARADESIC database http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Boxes 1-6 are the original tapes.
Existence and location of copies
Boxes 7-8 are CD copies of the recordings.