Original Item: Only One Available. Now this is a fantastic work of art! This poster was cut (as it was supposed to be) from a sheet of 3 posters in one. The posters all featured artwork from various Native students at the United States Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

We were able to discover a complete sheet which describes the three posters (including this one) and their origin:

“All over the country Americans still in school are making posters that tell how they feel about the war, and how they want others to feel.

In a way, they all feel alike– as the posters show. They all want their country to win quickly and triumphantly. All the posters-makers urge us to save, conserve, to work with whatever talents we have at the wartime jobs that come to hand–as they themselves are doing through their art. Some of these student poster-makers say this things differently because they see America and the war with a special vision.

The three posters on this page were made by boys who see America as the home their people have had always. They share it with us now and they see the war as their fight–to be fought with their ancient courage and cunning, but by modern methods.

The larger poster, by Ben Quintana, is especially interesting because it shows what Indian children actually must do to help. It describes better than words what it is like to ride for miles over the bright, bare cactus-studded land and buy War Stamps at a desert post office.

Ben Quintana (Ha-a-Tee), and Eva Mirabal (Eah-Ha-Wa) who painted the smoke signal poster, and Charles Presbetonequa who painted the “Tomahawk” poster are all students at the United States Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico.”

The poster is in wonderful condition and is the “Tomahawk” poster by Charles Presbetonequa. The poster features a Native warrior wielding a tomahawk as P-40 Tomahawks fly by. Built by Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk was a single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground attack aircraft that first flew in 1938. 13,738 were built from 1939 to 1944. It was the third most-produced American fighter, after the P-51 and P-47.

The poster is in wonderful condition and comes more than ready for further research and display.