Three topless Utupua Island natives gather firewood on the shore, piling it on an outrigger canoe on Utupua Island in 1943

U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Three topless Utupua Island natives gather firewood on the shore, piling it on an outrigger canoe. "Native women on Utapua Island gather driftwood by outrigger canoe for firewood." Utupua Island, Solomon Islands. [1943]

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Date: 
1943
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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: 
Utupua
Latitude: 
-11.333
Longitude: 
166.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Indigenous peoples--Solomon Islands