JOURNAL OF THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TOKYO IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY, JAPA¥. 

 VOL. XL., ARTICLE 7. 



Contributions to the Ethnography of Micronesia. 



By 



Akira Matsumura, 



Anthropological Institute, Tokyo Imperial university. 



With 36 2ylo,tes arid 72 text-fgures. 



Introduction. 



When the Imperial University of Tokyo despatched in the 

 spring of 1915 a party of scientists to the South Sea Islands 

 newly occupied by Japan, I was one of the number and was 

 ordered to undertake anthropological studies. On the 8th of March, 

 we left the Yokosuka Naval Station by the Kaga Maru, a steam- 

 ship in the service of the Imperial Navy. After several days 

 we reached Truk, one of the largest islands in the Caroline 

 group. If this were an ordinary cruise, we should have returned 

 homo after visiting the principal islands of the East and West 

 Caroline and Marshall groups. The Kaga Maru, however, was on 

 a special mission. The ship stayed at Truk for two days, after 

 which she sailed in a south-westerly direction and crossed the 

 equator, reaching the Fiji Islands. After staying two days at the 

 islands, our ship left straight for the Marshall Islands and touched 

 at Jabor on Jaluit. Leaving this island, we directed our course to 

 the west, and came back to Truk by way of Kusaie and Ponapé. 



