Thomas Talbot Waterman (23 April 1885 – 6 January 1936) was an American anthropologist.
Early life
Waterman was born in Hamilton, Missouri, and raised in Fresno, California.
Education
Waterman matriculated
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
in Hebrew, later at
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
, New York completed a Ph.D. in Anthropology.
Career
Waterman brought
Ishi
Ishi ( – March 25, 1916) was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States. The rest of the Yahi (as well as many members of their parent tribe, the Yana) were kill ...
, from
Oroville, California
Oroville (''Oro'', Spanish for "Gold" and ''Ville'', French for "town") is the county seat of Butte County, California, United States. The population of the city was 15,506 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, up from 13,004 in the 200 ...
, to the Affiliated Colleges Museum.
Personal life
Waterman married Grace Godwin in 1910, later, Ruth Dulaney in 1927, fathering Helen Maria and Thomas Talbot Jr.
Partial list of works
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*The Yana Indians (1908)
* Religious Practices of the Diegueño Indians (1910)
*The phonetic elements of the Northern Paiute language (Berkeley: University Press, 1911)
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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
Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his PhD under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia. He was also the first ...
)
* Waterman, T.T., 1922. The Geographical Names Used by the Indians of the Pacific Coast. American Geographical Society 12(2):175–194
* Native Houses of Western North America
References
External links
* http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85312111
* https://viaf.org/viaf/12682870/
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American anthropologists
American ethnologists
American folklorists
Linguists from the United States
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
Historians of Native Americans
Linguists of indigenous languages of North America