Tanga people explained

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

Bibliography

• A. Capell. A lost tribe in New Ireland. Taja. December 1967. 6. 10. 499-509.
• F. L. S. Bell. Report on field work in Tanga. Oceania. March 1934. 4. 3. 290-309.
• F. L. S. Bell. Warfare among the Tanga. Oceania. March 1935. 5. 3. 253-279.
• F. L. S. Bell. Sokapana: A Melanesian Secret Society. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 65. July–December 1935. 311-341.
• F. L. S. Bell. Courtship and marriage among the Tanga. Taja. December 1935. 1. 12. 20.
• F. L. S. Bell. Dafal. The Journal of the Polynesian Society. 1936. 45. 179. 83–98.
• F. L. S. Bell. The avoidance situation in Tanga. Oceania. March 1936. 6. 3. 306–322.
• F. L. S. Bell. Death in Tanga. Oceania. March 1937. 7. 3. 316–339.
• F. L. S. Bell. The place of food in the social life of the Tanga. Oceania. March 1948. 6. 3. 233–247.
• F. L. S. Bell. The narrative in Tanga. Taja. September 1949. 4. 3. 99–101.
• F. L. S. Bell. Land Tenure in Tanga. Oceania. September 1953. 24. 1. 28–57.
• F. L. S. Bell. Male and Female in Tanga: Being a Description of Certain Sexual Aspects of the Ritual Life. Taja. September 1957. 5. 4. 137–148.
• F. L. S. Bell. Tanga-English, English-Tanga dictionary. Oceania lingusitic monographs. 21. 1977. Sydney. University of Sydney.

Notes and References

1. Web site: GUIDE TO THE F.L.S. BELL COLLECTION. University of Sydney. 2016-06-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20220318073302/https://www.library.sydney.edu.au/collections/rare-books/downloads/bell.pdf. 2022-03-18.