Chapter Five Vhe Kalb Resectleme ns 0 QZ | 0 0 C Aimonp the first tasks confronting the Bikinians were che Oueut couscruction of dwellings, clearing of dense overgrowth thac had engulfed the palm groves and taro swamp since ther abandon | ment, and a rigorous program of planting subsistence crops. Build ing a village came first, and the administration provided two Reel months’ food supply to facilitate progress. “The people worked hard during the first months on che ishind as they concentrated . ' . . po. on building their new homes. When the carpenter's mate left in May, 1949, a cotal of thirty-five dwellings, nine more than ae ti kini or Rongerik, were completed as well.as a clhrorch aad anare ‘ . cisterns. . jrven| “jung\ a > j (Us uA ya | 1d WA pry ce Chet fads 194 oy . 171 yn A redistribucon of power, influence, and privilege chat was to occur in the community was foreshadowed as che tslanders settled into their new homes. The Americans provided the set ; clement plan, as they had at Ronperik. Houses were abnarnged an a compact L shaped pattern. Mast were situated alony a iain hey Fsbo Bosteins [| Vacsot Dwellios right-angle of the L-shaped village plan is a dune dike senmcuie | vy 40 l | | ; The church was eet. or hil which rises abruptly to about positioned on the hilltop facing the north shore and the main | oe . (6) Aluts 2 1A Alub E's so dwelhnys, and in other instances they did not. . cnteen were formed on Kili chrough former units. vr nits . . ln a 451-452). ' As the dwellings were completed, Juda and the council al- lotted them to family units. The factors which determined residential assignments are not certain. In some cases, families op. i. mn attribute and eighteen in Jitoen. Another house, the chirty-fitth, was placed onthe hill near the church for the pastor (Mason 1954: eleven houscholds at rm twice repeated uatit sixccen dwellings were located i pitaken . 4d Alb N i4 Alub 8 the . ; . + it became Jitoen ‘downwind, co the wesc’. The procedure was . BA Allah In the second stage, a few houses were buile mi the area west of the WCersec Cloth, atual . 4) Atal which had formerly lived neat to one another receimwed adjacent The houses were built in stages. In the first stape, several were built to the ease of che intersection, and this area became an ; IS] Alu ¢ QS Alub A LY Adal T's‘Ss yor yeo bee ee mn Mup 7. Kili village, 1949. (After a map by Leonard Mion.) roadway. A path which runs downhill from the church and in tersects the main roadway at a righe angle became established as the boundary between the two village districts when the dwellings were constructed (see Map 7). known as Jitaken ‘upwind, to the case’. h yort 19) Ala A's ab A’s yo ba gh adie R's yer bn 1a) teen Headman (bled £8) VPC duvet deeb . 2 Pokwas [2] J’ bokwiars se . . - . \ Th AkAT O§ Alub B's st so to houschokds of, Others were located on che 75 yard shore leg of che bE, which runs inland aca right angle co the a north shore forming the ease side of the village. Within the . 4 Divelligst belonging 0 Alat M roadway, the long leg of the 1, paralleling Kilvs north shore fos a lietle over 250 yards. \\ (91 patel bi PORN 14) ish rm ° a\ ya vo . I a wareoe am : Koadiway | . oo Heacll Coane ra House pispensa’y Lay tg, geht . Cops mn : Qihe crease of and the gh . twelve dn contiase to act che fis: Inston Gf We cotagee rth, Sak 4 some . mcreaye of a nuunbes o ne ra preater munbder Ob eee ene B _ Bikini avaible awe mm " , of hi ould I WEEE ONS AG ‘ ‘ stat increase in the population. The number of Bikinians on Kili im the wincer of 1948-49 had grown co 208 (tbid.:4 35). Mgdiciue. from the dispensary had reduced the high infant mortality rate, and Kili’s coconut groves had actracted some of the islanders wie had been absent from Bikini in 1946, Most of these returned ex pacriates had been living at Kwajalein and in the northern Rabk, has