Tanga people are a tribe of Papua New Guinea that lives in the Tanga Islands and Feni Islands of Tanir Rural LLG and three villages (Sena, Muliama and Warangansau) in the Matalai Rural LLG of Namatanai District of New Ireland Province. They speak the Tangga language which has since been split into three separate languages which are now spoken by the Tangans. These languages are: Niwer Mil, Warwar Feni and Fanamaket. Their population according to the 2011 Papua New Guinea Census Report is 12,466 people. Tubuan, Sokapana and Ingiet are the secret societies practised by the Tanga people. F.L.S. Bell has a collection on Tanga Islands in the University of Sydney Library in Australia.[1]
References
edit- ^ "GUIDE TO THE F.L.S. BELL COLLECTION" (PDF). University of Sydney. 2016-06-23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-18.
Bibliography
edit- A. Capell (December 1967). "A lost tribe in New Ireland". Taja. 6 (10): 499–509.
- F. L. S. Bell (March 1934). "Report on field work in Tanga". Oceania. 4 (3): 290–309.
- F. L. S. Bell (March 1935). "Warfare among the Tanga". Oceania. 5 (3): 253–279.
- F. L. S. Bell (July–December 1935). "Sokapana: A Melanesian Secret Society". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 65: 311–341.
- F. L. S. Bell (December 1935). "Courtship and marriage among the Tanga". Taja. 1 (12): 20.
- F. L. S. Bell (1936). "Dafal". The Journal of the Polynesian Society. 45 (179): 83–98.
- F. L. S. Bell (March 1936). "The avoidance situation in Tanga". Oceania. 6 (3): 306–322.
- F. L. S. Bell (March 1937). "Death in Tanga". Oceania. 7 (3): 316–339.
- F. L. S. Bell (March 1948). "The place of food in the social life of the Tanga". Oceania. 6 (3): 233–247.
- F. L. S. Bell (September 1949). "The narrative in Tanga". Taja. 4 (3): 99–101.
- F. L. S. Bell (September 1953). "Land Tenure in Tanga". Oceania. 24 (1): 28–57.
- F. L. S. Bell (September 1957). "Male and Female in Tanga: Being a Description of Certain Sexual Aspects of the Ritual Life". Taja. 5 (4): 137–148.
- F. L. S. Bell (1977). "Tanga-English, English-Tanga dictionary". Oceania lingusitic monographs. 21. Sydney: University of Sydney.
External links
edit- Media related to People of Papua New Guinea at Wikimedia Commons