For their diversity and serial reproduction, Indian postcards occupied a prominent place in the field of ethnographic photography in the period 1900-1940 and in the creation and dissemination of the "Indian" stereotype. In this paper, which deals with the Argentine case, we investigate the relationship of the manipulation of the bodies with the resistance expressed by the photographed and represented in these postcards. From this perspective, these images, rather than mere reproductions of exoticism, appear as documents of an unequal encounter that has been inscribed in them.