The picture shows a smiling Native American infant seated on a boldly patterned blanket, wearing a fringed, beaded buckskin garment and a single upright feather in dark hair, with leafy trees behind. The printed caption calls the child a “First American,” a popular mid-20th-century phrasing on novelty cards. The image is a colorized genre portrait rather than an identified individual or tribal scene.
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Very good
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Linen texture visible; minor wear at lower left corner.
Cite this card
Smiling Native American child in buckskin, circa 1940, postcard, n.d.. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/smiling-native-american-child-in-buckskin-circa-1940. Accessed October 25, 2026.
