council reflects a demise of the traditional system and indicates that the old division between Enjebi and Enewetak peoples has lost much of its Meaning. The council is now a representative body drawn from the entire population and reflects a unified community with acknowledged common goals. The chiefs, however, remain important figures as advisors and men of influence. CHURCH AND RELIGION The church is the focal point for many community social activities of the Enewetak people. The prevailing religious system is a conservative type of Protestantism in which church services, Bible classes, church group meetings, and hymn singing have replaced traditional intertribal wars, sports, games, and dancing. The minister is the spiritual leader of the community and is supported and assisted by the chiefs of the clans. The church functions are time consuming and require a considerable effort from the membership. Sundays in particular are devoted almost entirely to church services and related activities. From this it is apparent that the church influences the life of the Enewetakese to a great degree. LAND The atoll soil is poor, thus agriculture is limited. For centuries subsistence has been marginal and precarious for the island inhabitants despite hard work. Nevertheless, the residents have always maintained a deep emotional attachment to their home islands and ancestral land. The land parcels, or watos, on Enewetak Atoll were like those found elsewhere in the Marshalls. Most commonly, each was a strip of land stretching across an island from lagoon beach to ocean reef and varying in size from about 1 to 5 acres in extent. The resources of al] ecological zones were thus available to the individuals who held right to the land. Less commonly, a parcel was divided into two or more portions with transverse boundaries. This usually occurred when an island, Enjebi for example, was very wide. Boundaries were usually marked by slashes on the trunks of coconut trees, or less commonly, ornamental plants. Also, other features of the natural topography, e.g., large boulders on the ocean reef and the very configuration on an island, were used to fix the position of landholdings. One facet of Enewetak Atol] culture that differed from that of the rest of the Marshalls was the system of Jand tenure and inheritances. In contrast to the rest of the Marshalls were matrilineal descent groups known as bwij or lineage constitute landholding corporations, the land