oe Veg Settlement Pettern Land use rights are possessed by people in moi'e than one piece of Land and on different islands tnroughout the atoll. These rivhts are owned and held by kin groups. The Land parcels are worked by the members of the Lineage which holds these rights which are inherZted al birth primarily. The traditional pattern of habitation is for households (fenily croups) to live on their Llanc, not in a village cluster. That is, to live in a scattered pattern. The community buildings, church, school, dispensary, Wamchouse, and the like are however normally centralized for convenience and access to all. This pattern is obviously desirable from the point of view of envernnmental sanitation and public health. It is the pattern followed on Ujiimng today and will probably be perpetuated m iGnewetak, The typical Marshallese land holding, or wito , consists of a strip of Land stretching across the island from la;jcon to ocean, and varying in size from about one to five or more acres in extent. The resources of all of the ecological zones of the islend are thus available to each corporate Land holding group, the lineaze, as well as ready access to bath lagoon and ocean beach. This method of equitable distribution of natural resources is aialagous to that involved in strip Lranaing in medieval Surope, A similar allocation of resources prevailed in aboriginal Havaii, and exists on other iiicronesian atolls today. infrequently, the Land parcel is diviced into two or more portions with transverse bouncery Lines. Tris usually cccurs when tne island is a very wide one. The white -boundaries are marked by Lily plants (Crinum asiaticun), os med Lepted pieebha _ = RL bk ‘ ~ * Co. me Ty 7 COCO. ate ws lke e ft and de Wheat s . se rote, ooo Lt : Let 1 le hot Lok . lok ox reompontly by slashes on the tronxs 2 - . Poy as + De et . aN os . Tey tft tke set FA Dot ARCHIVES OTe we . Ly wo LAL