Color portrait recreation of a woman dressed as a Native American by a waterfall, based on a personal scan of a vintage 1921 photo. Credits to Google Gemini for helping to generate this recreation.

Upon further investigation, I stumbled upon a couple interesting findings about this photo. First being the location as it was never explicitly stated, but on the blank back side there's stamped text reading "Greenville Community Service, Greenville, S.C." (South Carolina). Not quite enough to pinpoint this waterfall, for all I know it could have been a photographer from Greenville who took the photo elsewhere. But then I checked Greenville on Google Maps, and it points me right to Reedy River Falls. Not entirely sure as the waterfall view here is only partial, but I think this could be it based on the cascading pattern and ledge space for the model to sit on.

Separately, an old school friend asked me if this could perhaps be Pocahontas the model was portraying. I didn't really know to begin with, but that was enough to make me pause and think...

Because of my research, I had come across this author by the name of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; especially for his epic poem titled Evangeline related to the Acadian Great Upheaval circa 1755. In the process, I had acquainted myself with The Song of Hiawatha and one of the main characters named Minnehaha. No less because I visited and photographed a waterfall called Minnehaha Falls back in autumn of 2019. I also scanned a vintage image plate titled the Death of Minnehaha.

So out of curiosity, I looked up the name Minnehaha. Only to find out it apparently means "waterfall" or "curling water" in the Dakota language. Putting two and two together, I now have good reason to believe the model was portraying Minnehaha in this photo.