T. T. Waterman

Thomas Talbot Waterman (April 23, 1885 – January 6, 1936)^[1] was an American anthropologist.

Early life

Waterman was born in Hamilton, Missouri, and raised in Fresno, California.

Education

Waterman matriculated University of California, Berkeley^[2] in Hebrew, later at Columbia University, New York completed a Ph.D. in Anthropology.^[3][4]

Career

Waterman brought Ishi, from Oroville, California, to the Affiliated Colleges Museum.^[5]

Personal life

Waterman married Grace Godwin in 1910, later, Ruth Dulaney in 1927, fathering Helen Maria and Thomas Talbot Jr.

Partial list of works

• Kroeber, Alfred Louis; Waterman, Thomas Talbot; Sapir, Edward; Sparkman, Philip Stedman (January–March 1908). "Notes on California folk-lore". Journal of American Folklore. 21 (80): 35–42. doi:10.2307/534527. hdl:2027/uc1.31822005860226. JSTOR 534527.
• The Yana Indians (1908)
• Religious Practices of the Diegueño Indians (1910)^[6]
• The phonetic elements of the Northern Paiute language (Berkeley: University Press, 1911)
• Waterman, Thomas Talbot (January 1915). "The Last Wild Tribe of California". Popular Science Monthly. Vol. 86. pp. 233–244.
• Waterman, Thomas Talbot (1917). "Ishi, The Last Yahi Indian". The Southern Workman. 46. Hampton, Virginia: Press of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute: 528–537. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  • Ishi, the Last Yahi Indian public domain audiobook at LibriVox
  • Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026 public domain audiobook at LibriVox (2012).
• Yurok Geography (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology; Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1920)
• Source book in anthropology, (1920, with A. L. Kroeber)^[7]
• Waterman, T.T., 1922. The Geographical Names Used by the Indians of the Pacific Coast. American Geographical Society 12(2):175–194^[8]
• Native Houses of Western North America

References

1. Kroeber, A. L. (July 1937). "Thomas Talbot Waterman". American Anthropologist. 39 (3): 527–529. doi:10.1525/aa.1937.39.3.02a00130.
2. "Thomas T. Waterman: negatives and photographs". SOVA. si.edu. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
3. "Archives West: T.T. Waterman photograph collection, 1907-1919". University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved February 13, 2021. ncludes the period of Waterman's work with Ishi while an Associate Professor at the University of Washington.
4. "T.T. Waterman". National Museum of the American Indian. Retrieved February 13, 2021. It was Thomas Talbot Waterman (1885-1936) who brought Ishi, the last surviving member of the Yahi people, from the town of Oroville to the University of California Museum of Anthropology—where Ishi would live until his death five years later. Waterman was born in Hamilton, Missouri, and raised in California. His father was an Episcopalian clergyman and it was expected that Waterman too would enter the clergy, but a class in phonetics and fieldwork with P.E. Goddard was all Waterman needed to change his vocation. Waterman received his PhD in Anthropology at Columbia University in 1913. He studied under Boas. Waterman held several positions at several institutions throughout his career. He first worked at the University of California and then at the University of Washington. He held both teaching and curatorial positions at those institutions from 1907 until 1921. He joined the staff of the Museum of the American Indian—Heye Foundation in June 1921 and worked for George G. Heye as a field collector until February 1922. He worked for a while at the National Museum of Guatemala and then at Fresno State College. He worked for a year at the University of Arizona and them moved to Honolulu where he taught at both the Territorial Normal College and University of Hawaii. He served for a short time as the Territorial Archivist of Hawaii. Waterman died in Honolulu at the age of 50.
5. Waterman, Thomas Talbot (1917). Ishi, the last Yahi Indian. Hampton Normal and Agricultural Inst. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
6. Ockerbloom, John Mark. "T. T. Waterman (Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1885-1936)". Online Books Page. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
7. "Thomas Talbot Waterman: Foundations of Anthropology at the University of California". bancroft.berkeley.edu. University of California. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
8. "Tribal Stories". SR520 History. Retrieved February 13, 2021.

External links

• http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85312111
• https://viaf.org/viaf/12682870/