T. T. Waterman Explained

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 . Alfred Louis Kroeber . Thomas Talbot Waterman . Edward Sapir . . Journal of American Folklore . January–March 1908 . 21 . 80 . 35–42 . 10.2307/534527 . 534527 . 2027/uc1.31822005860226 . 10 April 2021 -->. free .
• The Yana Indians (1908)
• Religious Practices of the Diegueño Indians (1910)^[6]
• The phonetic elements of the Northern Paiute language (Berkeley: University Press, 1911)
• Book: Waterman . Thomas Talbot . https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Popular_Science_Monthly_Volume_86.djvu/237 . The Last Wild Tribe of California . Popular Science Monthly . 86 . January 1915 . 233–244.
• Waterman . Thomas Talbot . Ishi, The Last Yahi Indian . The Southern Workman . 1917 . 46 . 528–537 . February 11, 2021 . . . en.
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• 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

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Kroeber . A. L. . Alfred L. Kroeber . Thomas Talbot Waterman . American Anthropologist . July 1937 . 39 . 3 . 527–529 . 10.1525/aa.1937.39.3.02a00130 . 11 February 2021 -->. free .
2. Web site: Thomas T. Waterman: negatives and photographs . SOVA . si.edu . February 11, 2021.
3. Web site: Archives West: T.T. Waterman photograph collection, 1907-1919 . University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org . February 13, 2021 . ncludes the period of Waterman's work with Ishi while an Associate Professor at the University of Washington..
4. Web site: T.T. Waterman . National Museum of the American Indian . 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. Book: Waterman . Thomas Talbot . Ishi, the last Yahi Indian . 1917 . Hampton Normal and Agricultural Inst. . February 11, 2021 . en.
6. Web site: Ockerbloom . John Mark . John Mark Ockerbloom . T. T. Waterman (Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1885-1936) . . . February 11, 2021.
7. Web site: Thomas Talbot Waterman: Foundations of Anthropology at the University of California . bancroft.berkeley.edu . University of California . February 11, 2021.
8. Web site: Tribal Stories . SR520 History . February 13, 2021.