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PHOTO CREDIT:
Edward Curtis, "Princess Angeline" 1899, NAI Volume IX Folio. Courtesy Washington State Historical Society.

Text:
After establishing himself as a portrait and landscape photographer, Edward later began recording tribal mythology and history, as well as taking what he called his "Indian pictures," during the late 1890s. Among his first subjects was Princess Angeline, the daughter of Chief Seattle.

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