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APPENDIX I
6
PRELIMINARY ANTHROPOLOGIST'S REPORT - BIKINI ATOLL SURVEY 1957
Jack A.
Tobin
Brief Historical Background
The Bikini
zenerations.
people had
They and
lived on their atoll
for many
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 II.
Contact with the Outside World
The people
of Bikini Atoll
were not
the
isolated
twentieth
century “Stone Age primitives’ as described by sensationalist
news
reporters and
ever,
less
sophisticated
Marshallese,
Marshall
other journalists.
but
They
and
are,
how-
than other more acculturated
they had been in contact
Islands,
were and
had
been
exposed
with
to at
the rest
least
some
of the
of the
aspects of Western culture.
Every two months a Japanese
purchase copra and
to sell
food,
Every six months a Japanese
Some of the Bikini
and
attended
Bikini.
500901 —
school
people
schooner visited Bikini
clothing,
and other goods.
official made a visit
visited
elsewhere.
to
other atolis,
to the atoll.
married
out,
Other Marshallese visited
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