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APPENDIX I
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PRELIMINARY ANTHROPOLOGIST'S REPORT - BIKINI ATOLL SURVEY 1967
Jack A. Tobin
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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.
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