A local man creates a basket from reeds at 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 Islander creating basket from reeds. 194-
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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
Baskets--New Guinea