After the funeral, the monument. In the case of the death of a monarch, especially a monarch of the stature of Queen Elizabeth II, there will be at least two national memorials. One of these is her tomb in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, every element of which had been decided before her death on 8th September. The other is a public statue, no detail of which has yet been announced as we go to press, in the week before the Queen’s funeral.

When the German-born Winold Reiss (1886–1953) arrived in New York in October 1913, the year in which the ground-breaking Armory Show took place in the city, he expected to encounter Native Americans, an interest nurtured by watching Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and reading the popular novels of Karl May and James Fenimore Cooper at an early age.