Newspapers frequently referred to Ishi as the "last wild Indian," and the press was full of anecdotes referring to Ishi's reaction to twentieth-century technological wonders like streetcars, theaters, and airplanes. During the next four years, the anthropologists and physicians at UC would learn much from Ishi, as he demonstrated his toolmaking and hunting skills, and spoke his tribal stories and songs.
The UC anthropologists immediately went north to Oroville and brought him back to live on the Parnassus campus, giving him the name "Ishi" which meant "man" in the Yahi language.
Waterman as the last of a remnant band of Yahi people native to the Deer Creek region. He was identified by UC anthropologists Alfred Kroeber and T. Image courtesy of UC Berkeley, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology.In August of 1911 a starving native-American man walked out of the Butte County wilderness into Oroville and became an instant journalistic sensation. Kroeber, and Ishi, photographed at Parnassus in1911.
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