A festival or ritual in New Guinea in the 1940s

U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
Description: 

Pacific Islanders during festival or ritual. 194-

Image Information

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Date: 
1941
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
Geography: 
Papua New Guinea
Latitude: 
-6.000
Longitude: 
147.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Indigenous peoples--New Guinea
Celebrations--New Guinea