In 1895, Edward S Curtis, the prolific American photographer, took his first portrait of a Native American, a wrinkled elderly woman in a red scarf, paying her one dollar for the work. One of these portraits would later make Curtis a widely decorated and internationally acclaimed photographer, but it is his model who has the most interesting story to tell.
She was more than an old Native American with weathered eyebrows and downturned lips; she was Princess Angeline, the eldest daughter of Chief Seattle, and for many years a prominent link connecting natives and settlers.