DOE ARCHIVES 408366 seni APPENDIX I R PRELIMINARY ANTHROPOLOGIST'S REPORT - BIKINI ATOLL SURVEY 1967 Jack A. Tobin BEST COPY AVAILABLF Brief Historical Background The Bikini people had lived on their atoll for many generations. They and 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 Il. Contact with the Outside World The people of Bikini Atoll were not the isolated twentteth century "Stone Age primitives” as described by sensationalist news reporters and other journalists. ever, They were and are, how- less sophisticated than other more acculturated Marshailese, Marshall but they had been Islands, and had in contact beer exposed with the rest to at least of the some of the aspects of Western culture, Every two months a Japanese schooner visited Bikini to purchase copra and to sell food, clothing, and other goods. Every six months a Japanese official made a visit to the atoll. some of the Bikini people visited other atolis, married out, and attended scnool Bikini. GONFIGMEDS TC BE USC ASEH IES BY AUTHORITY SF DGEIGS Hoppe(0-3-¥9. REVIEWED DATE ; by: Die KeeGhé 3-$-%7 elsewhere. Other Marshallese visited BEST COPY AVAILABLE Mitiinliias