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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Accession Number: 
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