... to the Soviet Delegation, November 14, 1949, from the secretariat of the council, prepared at the direction of the chairman. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE POTTERY OF THE PALAU ISLANDS Although the various types of Palauan pottery and its manufacture by the coil method have been described,1 the rim types have...

..., or men's house, is a function of age grouping, secret societies, or sexual abstinence or laxity. 8 Yanaihara T. , The Pacific islands under Japanese mandate ( New York and London , 1940 ), pp. 1 – 209 ; Krämer A. , “Palau,” in Thileniu's G. Ergebnisse der Südsee...

... in which ethnographic data were collected. Over half the book deals with the colonial relationship in Asian societies (Papua New Guinea, Palau Islands, Ponape, Trobriand Islands, Andaman Islands, Yap, and Montagnards). The remainder of the book focuses on Algonquians (Canada), Zimbabwe, and the Kayapo...

... societies (Papua New Guinea, Palau Islands, Ponape, Trobriand Islands, Andaman Islands, Yap, and Montagnards). The remainder of the book focuses on Algonquians (Canada), Zimbabwe, and the Kayapo (Brazil). The essays view the colonial situation from three vantage points: the ethnographer dealing...

..., and covers the area by sampling. There is a chapter devoted to the Marianas, Palau, Yap, Truk, Ponape, the Marshalls, and Pingelap and Mokil. Although the author seems to have personally visited each of these places, the bulk of the material of Part II seems to be re-hashed from the mimeographed...

... more effort toward editorial acumen, for this edition contains many minor errors (such as giving "17.9" as the size of battleship Yamato's 18.1-inch guns, and frequent misspelling of proper names) and some major ones (such as saying that Palau is in the Marianas) which should have been avoided...

... for fleet anchorage. In the Carolines there was "fair indication that no great strategic importance was attached" to Kusaie, since Americans were permitted to live there. On Ponape he concludes, the Japanese "had penetrated to start plantations and doubtless, install armaments." On Palau, however...

... 14, 1949, from the secretariat of the council, prepared at the direction of the chairman. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE POTTERY OF THE PALAU ISLANDS Although the various types of Palauan pottery and its manufacture by the coil method have been described,1 the rim types have received little attention...

..., insect survey of No. Marianas), J. L. Chamberlin (Harvard, ecological study of the Giant African Snail on Tinian), J. L. Gressitt (Univ. of California, Rhinoceros Beetle Survey in Palaus and Samoa), N. L. H. Krauss (Board of Agriculture & Forestry, Honolulu, predators of Giant African Snail...

... of strategic planning (on the American side the fortunate rejection of General MacArthur's proposals, on the Japanese the frustrated hopes for perimeter defense), of notable submarine patrols, and of the important carrier strikes of March and April on Palau, Hollandia, and Truk. Part II devotes a hundred pages...

.... Loeb, Edwin M., Matrilineal long-houses and other culture traits of Palau. California. Berkeley. Luomala, Katharine (F), Missionary contributions to Polynesian anthropology (in press). Hawaii and Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Luomala, Katharine (F), Studies in the aboriginal mythology of Australia...

... more effort toward editorial acumen, for this edition contains many minor errors (such as giving "17.9" as the size of battleship Yamato's 18.1-inch guns, and frequent misspelling of proper names) and some major ones (such as saying that Palau is in the Marianas) which should have been avoided...

.... Zeichnungen von SudseeEingeborenen aus dem friihen 17. Jahrhundert. Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie 79 (1954), 75-81. RlTZENHALER, ROBERT EuGENE. Native Books and Articles money of Palau. Milwaukee, Wise, 1954. 46 p. (Milwaukee. Public Museum. Pub- ADAM, R. S. Educational research in the lications in anthropology...

... goes back to Toshi's portrayals of people in Palau in 1940. Also, while in the introduction, Eubanks warns us that the chapter arrangement is not strictly chronological, upon realizing that the artist went to Micronesia between her two stays in Moscow, one wonders how her experience in Russia...

... have profitably directed more effort toward editorial acumen, for this edition contains many minor errors (such as giving "17.9" as the size of battleship Yamato's 18.1-inch guns, and frequent misspelling of proper names) and some major ones (such as saying that Palau is in the Marianas) which should...

... devoted to the Marianas, Palau, Yap, Truk, Ponape, the Marshalls, and Pingelap and Mokil. Although the author seems to have personally visited each of these places, the bulk of the material of Part II seems to be re-hashed from the mimeographed and published reports of the Coordinated Investigation...

... died on Japanese-held Palau in 1923, but outside of Ellis' studies, the subject was generally neglected. No concerted effort seems to have been made to gather information on the mandated islands. Though the idea that such missions were the major function of the Marine Corps became rather widely held...

... the sharp criticism that E. O. Reischauer expressed in TheJapanese with respect to Japan's poor performance in contributing toward the maintenance of world order and peace. They review the Palau superport case, in which Japan has been eyeing the Micronesian coral island as a potential site for an industrial...

... Skinner 258 355 365 NOTES AND COMMENTS Allied Council for Japan, by Immanuel C. Y. Hsu 173 Some Observations on the Pottery of the Palau Islands, by A Iphonse Riesenfeld 178 A Note to Lyon's Review of Ku Chieh-kang's Book, by Arthur F. Wright 180 K. P. Landon's Southeast Asia: Crossroad of Religion...

... of California: Peter A. Boodberg, instruction in the Malay language and compilation of a dictionary of Malay; Edward W. Gifford, Fiji archaeology; Mary Haas (Mrs. Subhanka), instruction in the Siamese language; Edwin M. Loeb, a study of the matrilineal long houses and other culture traits of Palau as related...