Byron Wolfe, 2011. Left: Inside Ishi’s storage cave, hidden from sight but exposed to the world. September, 2011. Right: From T. T. Waterman’s 1918 article “The Yana Indians,” with an account of Ishi’s stolen blanket.
Left inset: courtesy of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Regents of the University of California.
Right: T. T. Waterman, The Last of the Yahi in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Volume 13, 1918, University of California Press, courtesy Dave Nopel.
Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 24”h x 46”w or 36"h x 70"w