Thomas Talbot Waterman (April 23, 1885 – January 6, 1936)[1] was an American anthropologist.
Waterman was born in Hamilton, Missouri, and raised in Fresno, California.
Waterman matriculated University of California, Berkeley[2] in Hebrew, later at Columbia University, New York completed a Ph.D. in Anthropology.[3][4]
Waterman brought Ishi, from Oroville, California, to the Affiliated Colleges Museum.[5]
Waterman married Grace Godwin in 1910, later, Ruth Dulaney in 1927, fathering Helen Maria and Thomas Talbot Jr.
Ishi, the Last Yahi Indian public domain audiobook at LibriVox Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026 public domain audiobook at LibriVox (2012).ncludes the period of Waterman's work with Ishi while an Associate Professor at the University of Washington.
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.
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