Vintage Thanksgiving Greeting Card with Native American & Turkey

The card's cheerful Thanksgiving sentiment clashes oddly with its imagery: a chibi cartoon child in a full feathered headdress and fringed pants, leaning on what appears to be a small cane or staff, locked in an unsettling staring contest with a meticulously rendered, photorealistic turkey. The tonal whiplash between the twee illustrated child and the almost ornithologically accurate bird suggests the artist simply could not decide whether this was a children's greeting card or a wildlife study, and heroically chose both. The child's smug little smirk reads less as 'Happy Thanksgiving' and more as 'I know exactly what's about to happen to you, Gerald.'