ALLE? APPENDIX I 6 PRELIMINARY ANTHROPOLOGIST'S REPORT - BIKINI ATOLL SURVEY 1957 Jack A. Tobin Brief Historical Background The Bikini zenerations. people had They and lived on their atoll for many 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 tne 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 ever, less sophisticated Marshallese, Marshall other journalists. but They and are, how- than other more acculturated they had been in contact Islands, were and had been exposed with to at the rest least some of the of the aspects of Western culture. Every two months a Japanese purchase copra and to sell food, Every six months a Japanese Some of the Bikini and attended Bikini. 500901 — school people schooner visited Bikini clothing, and other goods. official made a visit visited elsewhere. to other atolis, to the atoll. married out, Other Marshallese visited Peet et, get qly974h ~ sfSNGt7