Several women of Utapua pose for a photo in front of a thatched hut 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:
Several native woman of Utapua, one pregnant and two with small children in papooses pose for a photo in front of a thatched hut. "Melanesian natives on Utapua Island, Banks Island Group, 200 miles east of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands." Utapua, Banks Islands. 194-
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Date:
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
Huts--Banks Islands