Ishi, the Last of His Tribe- Part 6 of 9

A more ethnographically accurate re-telling of the story of a Northern California Indian named "Ishi" by anthropologists. He was the last member of the Yahi tribe by the year 1911 and became a living museum exhibit in San Francisco until his death in 1916. Originally directed by Robert Ellis Miller, the tele-play was written by black-listed screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. The film originally aired on TV in 1978. Dennis Weaver plays anthropologist Thomas Watterman. For a copy of the DVD please contact me at lynchlee@hotmail.com

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• Richard
• Burrill

[fireworksoflife]

@Virta25 No audio, see my comment above, feel free to make your own.

[fireworksoflife]

@happyjoybells This is a part from an unfinished ethnographic film I found on the Yahi in the museum at Berkley. No sound exists but you are free to re-upload your own version with sound.

[happyjoybells]

i'm not getting any audio on this one and it doesn't seem to start where the last one left off

[Virta25]

audio?

[fireworksoflife]

@bigdatut When the surveyors saw him first they said he was completely naked. You should look into Frank Day's story about seeing Ishi try and cure his Uncle after they abandoned the hiding place.

[bigdatut]

Part of the retelling of the surveyors was that they had seen an Indian that was probably Ishi the day before. They saw him at the river with a fish spear, and he chased them off. They came back, found the village, and everyone ran in different directions. Ishi's mother was wrapped in furs, almost dead. She died several days later. Ishi looked for the others for 2 years and never found them. That's when he came out of the mountains.