Nicknamed
"Princess Angeline" by European-Americans, the daughter of Chief Seattle lived
out her old age in the city named after her father. A young portrait photographer, Edward S. Curtis, often saw her on the streets of downtown Seattle
or digging clams near the shack where she lived on Puget Sound. He became intrigued by her
and often photographed her and chatted with her. "I paid the princess a dollar for
each picture I made," Curtis recalled many years later. "This seemed to please
her greatly, and she indicated that she preferred to spend her time having pictures taken
to digging clams." His interest in Princess Angeline led him to become interested in
photographing other American Indians, and he became far and away the best and most famous
photographer of them.
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