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Chapter
3
FAMILY GROUPS: ACTIVITIES, OBSERVATIONS,
and FOODS DURING FALLOUT
The natives of Rongelap lived in groups, comprised of one or more families, constituting a matriarchic unit (see References 6, Chapters 5 to 8; 10; and 11). Each
family group usually occupied one or more houses and shared several out-duildings.
The family groups are presented on the following pages.
Information concerning
the location of families, foods eaten 1~3 March, and descriptions of the fallout are included. Each native’s name is preceded by the clinical number assigned by Project
4,1, and followed by the sex and age of the individual. Married couples are indicated by
brackets. Solid lines indicate direct descendants. Broken lines indicate adoptions.
3.1
GROUP ONE
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(M=23)
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(P=35)
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(M=30)
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Living Area.
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Adopted lived cart time «ith
(M=12) Agoptea; Mensarica’s son
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(M=9)
Adapted
the village magistrate, and family lived in house No. 12.
the school teacher, and family lived in house No. 11. Other families lived in
the same general area.
and
were at Ailinginae 1—3 March.
Activities. On 1 March,
walked on
reef to Jaboan (island near west end of Rongelap) and returned to Rangelap after sundown.
Later went on a picnic and ate only coconuts.
said coconut meat tasted sour.
Food and Drink. Fresh fruit, bread, rice, fresh coconut milk and meat, starch
tubes (mokmok), copra, jekaro, water, andcoffee. Told to stop drinxing water at 1500
(1 March), but did not do so.
Fallout. Began in afternoon of l March. The group who went to Jaboan said the
fallout particles ranged in appearance ‘���from Dour to salt.’’ Fallout material was vis-
ible on their skin and ‘‘like dust in their eyes.’’
quitees were biting.’’
It caused itching and ‘‘felt like mos-
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