A man and woman, indigenous Utapua Islanders, stand side by side at Utapua, Banks Islands in the 1940s
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
Description:
A man and woman, natives of Utapua Island stand side by side. The man has a large knife at his wait, and the topless woman smokes a pipe. "Melanesian natives on Utapua Island, Banks Island Group, 200 miles eastof Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands." Utapua, Banks Islands. 194-
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12/07/1941
09/02/1945
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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:
Banks Islands
Latitude:
-13.833
Longitude:
167.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Indigenous peoples--Banks Islands
Islands--Banks Islands