ABSTRACT
The Trobriand archipelago which faces students on the map is a coral atoll, or more correctly a part of the Lusancay atoll. The group which concerns they consists of one big island, two of fair size - Vakuta and Kayleula - and a number of smaller ones surrounding a basin or lagoon. The description of the territory just given, taken in connexion with the map of the Archipelago, the realisation that these natives have a high level of cultural ability, of political and economic organisation - enables roughly to assess the type of the production and industrial development. To the east, at a distance of about one hundred miles, lies the second large centre of the Northern Massim culture - Woodlark Island. Between Woodlark Island and the Trobriands there is a bridge of five small islands Kitava, Iwa, Gawa, Kwaywata and Digumenu - also inhabited by people of the same culture.
