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befcue these trees produce coconuts.
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An indication of tl’ie
significance of radioactivity in coconut meat
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The natives
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harvest the coconuts which have taken about a year to mature-and extract the coconut meat from the shell and husk.
The shells are some-
and such shells may find
times used by the r.ativcsfor eating utensils
Husks are used i.n
their way into commerce in the form of charcoal.
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coconut trees.
cooking fires and as a mulch in planting crops includin~
Cord and rope are also made from husk fiber.
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Sleepirg mats ere made
from coconut pakn frond along with other items of handicraft suc’has
hats and handbags.
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The “Kili Bag,” which is a han:lbagmanufactmed
by
leaf and is widely
the Bikinians, is made from paLn frond and I’anclanus
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known in the Pacific.
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Pieces of coconut meat are sun ~ied,
ba~ged, and stored under cover
(wareiouse) until picked up by a copra boat wlnichmay vj.sitan Atoll.two
Collection or 25 to ~Oj of a years copra production
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in’s werehouse would accumulate
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or three times a year.
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