The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NEW GUINEA. RAMU VALLEY. PRIVATE (PTE) CHARLES NEIL OAKHAM OF DUNGOG, NSW, AND PTE ARCHIBALD MCCREADY SEMPLE OF BRISBANE, QLD, MAN A VICKERS GUN IN THE RAMU VALLEY. ACROSS THE GUN IS THE JAPANESE THOUSAND STITCHES GOOD LUCK BELT. BOTH MEN ARE MEMBERS OF THE 2/16TH BATTALION. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT).
White rayon body belt of a thousand stitches (senninbari or sennenbari), printed in red with images of the Japanese national and imperial ensigns and four characters wishing the wearer good fortune in
Ramu Valley, New Guinea. A local native man shows Corporal A. Monsen of Brisbane, Qld, and Private R. McFarlane of Summer Hill, NSW, how banana and coconut leaves are used to waterproof beds.
FINISTERRE RANGES, NEW GUINEA. 1943-12-10. QX11920 PRIVATE G. JOHNSTONE (1) AND QX16703 PRIVATE D. E. MCNEVIN (2) BOTH OF C COMPANY, 2/31ST AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, 25TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BRIG
KAIAPIT, NEW GUINEA. 1943-09-23. SX13290 PRIVATE (PTE) M. D. AUSTIN (LEFT) AND SX13334 PTE W. G. SHATTOCK, BOTH OF THE 2/27TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION, POSITIONING A VICKERS GUN OVERLOOKING THE M
A Thousand Stitches of Hope was a collaborative art project involving hundreds of Australian and Japanese women in stitching 75 commemorative senninbari belts. In a series of sewing workshops, the art
Senninbari belt featuring a Japanese poem by Matsue Matsuo in calligraphy. A second belt, AWM2018.765.1.5, is embroidered with an English translation of the poem. It was stitched by a Japanese woman.