APPENDIY = o> EUOIOSTRE 2 ae ew PRELIMINARY ANTHROPOLOGIST'S REPORT - BIKINI ATOLL SURVEY 1967 JackA. Brief Historical Background | The Bikini people had lived on their atoll for many generations. They and their fellow Marshallese came under the domination of foreigners less than one hundred years ago. The German regime was succeeded by that of the Japanese at the onset of World War I. The Japanese rule was terminated by the American forces during World War II. Contact with the Outside World The people of Bikini Atoll were not the isolated twentieth century "Stone Age primitives" as described by sensationalist news reporters and other journalists. - ever, They were and are, how- less sophisticated than other more acculturated Marshallese, but they had been in contact with the rest of the Marshall Islands, and had been exposed to at least some of the aspects of Western culture. Every two months a Japanese schooner visited Bikini to purchase copra and to sell food, clothing, and other goods. Every six months a Japanese official made a visit to the atoli. | Some of the Bikini people visited other atolls, married out, ‘and attended school elsewhere. Bikini. Other Marshallese visited