Charles Wimar's The Buffalo Dance shows a nighttime gathering of Native Americans around a central fire. Dancers in animal skins and feathered headdresses move through the firelight while spectators watch from raised platforms and the ground; dogs appear in the foreground. Wimar, a German-born painter who settled in St. Louis, specialized in scenes of Plains Indian life along the upper Missouri. The painting was in the City Art Museum of St. Louis.
Wide white border; monochrome reproduction; small foxing spots in margins.
No postmark, stamp, or handwriting on the back; only printed text and a dealer's pencil mark "#59 1-" in the lower right. Undivided-style layout with a vertical divider and "THIS SIDE FOR CORRESPONDENCE" / "THIS SIDE FOR ADDRESS" headings; card is a gravure reproduction of a painting, white border on the front.
Cite this card
The Buffalo Dance by Charles Wimar, St. Louis, circa 1915, postcard, c. 1915. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/the-buffalo-dance-by-charles-wimar-st-louis-circa-1915. Accessed November 2, 2026.
