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title: More tomahawks for our united warriors. Buy war bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/more-tomahawks-for-our-united-warriors-student-bond-posters-1942/
description: 'Treasury sheet reproducing three student war-bond posters to be cut apart: a figure beside a smoke signal (''Buy War Bonds!'').'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Stylised depictions of Native American figures (a warrior with a raised tomahawk, a figure beside a smoke signal) in war-bond art by students of a federal Indian school, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![More tomahawks for our united warriors. Buy war bonds, 1942 US poster: Treasury sheet reproducing three student war-bond](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/more-tomahawks-for-our-united-warriors-student-bond-posters-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/more-tomahawks-for-our-united-warriors-student-bond-posters-1942.jpg)

# More tomahawks for our united warriors. Buy war bonds

Treasury sheet reproducing three student war-bond posters to be cut apart: a figure beside a smoke signal ('Buy War Bonds!'), a figure with a raised tomahawk beside P-40 aircraft ('More Tomahawks for Our United Warriors'), and children buying stamps at an adobe post office. Techniques are transfer (a traditional warrior image attached to modern aircraft and bonds) and plain-folks (ordinary children buying stamps).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
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. All the poster-makers urge us to save, to 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 these 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 always had. 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.
THESE POSTERS HAVE BEEN REPRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE EDUCATION SECTION, WAR SAVINGS STAFF, TREASURY DEPARTMENT, THROUGH THE STATE WAR SAVINGS OFFICES. TO DISPLAY, CUT THEM APART AS INDICATED BY THE DOTTED LINES.
TRIM
[poster 1:] BUY WAR BONDS!
[signature: Eah-Ha-Wa]
[poster 2:] MORE TOMAHAWKS
for OUR UNITED WARRIORS
P-40
Buy WAR BONDS now!
[poster 3, in the picture: a sign reading] I Need your Help! BUY WAR BONDS STAMPS; POST OFFICE; BUY HERE
[signature: Ha'-a-tee, Ben]
[faint mirrored show-through of "WAR BONDS" from the reverse side, upper centre of the lower panel]
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—489383, followed by a short code, illegible]
```

[← More Production (Snowball over the Axis Leaders)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/more-production-snowball-axis-leaders-1942/) [Murder in Cold Blood: Let's Force the Japs to Pay (TCOP Poster Studio) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/murder-in-cold-blood-tcop-1942/)

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