Byron Wolfe, 2012. Traces of “Ishi drying a fire drill” in Deer Creek Canyon, May 1914 and September 2012.
Surrounding image courtesy of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Regents of the University of California.
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Byron Wolfe, 2012. Carefully posed on “basalt stage no. 2” with a view down Deer Creek Canyon, Autumn 2012 and Summer 1914.
Inset picture courtesy of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Regents of the University of California.
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Byron Wolfe, 2012. Perched atop 15 million-year-old “Lovejoy Basalt”; Ishi, demonstrating how to hunt salmon in Deer Creek. Summer 1914 and Autumn 2012.
Inset pictures courtesy of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Regents of the University of California.
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Byron Wolfe, 2012. “Ishi loved his bow as he loved nothing else in his possession.” – his friend , Saxton T. Pope, in an academic journal, 1918. September, 2012.
Inset text from Saxton T. Pope, Yahi Archery in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Volume 13, 1918, University of California Press, collection of the artist.
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Byron Wolfe, 2012. Forty-three years before Theodora Kroeber’s “Ishi in Two Worlds” popularized his story; the first published pictures demonstrating “Yahi Archery” on a basalt stage, 1914 and 2012.
Inset pictures from Saxton T. Pope, Yahi Archery in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Volume 13, 1918, University of California Press, collection of the artist.
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Byron Wolfe, 2011. Ishi’s storage cave, a site of conflict and hardship, isolated and unchanged for a century. September, 2011.
Inset picture courtesy of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Regents of the University of California.
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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.
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Byron Wolfe, 2012. After the shooting demonstration, only 100 meters from their camp, Autumn 2012 and Summer 1914.
Inset picture courtesy of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Regents of the University of California.
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Byron Wolfe, 2010. Adolf “Ad” Kessler, a young boy and slaughterhouse employee in 1911, pointing to the exact spot where Ishi “emerged from the wilderness.” Oroville, CA, August 1966 and March 2010.
Inset picture courtesy of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Regents of the University of California.
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Byron Wolfe, 2012. Monument at the site of the former slaughterhouse and corral that marks “an end to Stone Age California,” Oroville, CA, September, 2012.
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