An elder Seminole woman stands in quiet dignity amid tropical palms at the Miami Bird Jungle, her layered patchwork blouse blazing with bands of red, yellow, and teal, her neck stacked with rows of glass trade beads in the traditional Seminole manner — a portrait that simultaneously documents a living culture and reflects the complex tourist-gaze of mid-century Florida, where Indigenous people were employed as living attractions at roadside attractions like the Bird Jungle at 79th Street and N.W. 37th Avenue. The Gulf Stream Card & Distributing Co. of Miami produced this card (G 443) using the Curt Teich Curteichcolor Art-Creation process (7C-K662, dating to the late 1950s–early 1960s), and it circulated widely as a Florida souvenir. The Seminole Tribe of Florida, never having signed a peace treaty with the United States, maintained a fiercely independent cultural identity, and the beadwork and patchwork visible here remain important living traditions today.