Edward Curtiss 1898 photograph A Desert Queen is on display at the Northwest African American Museum.

Edward Curtis’s 1898 photograph A Desert Queen is on display at the Northwest African American Museum. University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, UW 147

What would you say? Museums are almost always noncommittal. Not this time.

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Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...