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Show I iNDiis : I LD MAN Ladt -.Survivor of a H Tribe Is Found in H .California T $w Fr&nclsco. Sept, 6. Anthropol- ' offista of the University of California ' announce that they have In custody H; "the most uncontximlnatcd aborlglno ' la tho known "world." Thoy have ac- H' cured from hlaTsjn phonographic rec- ' ordB, over 3WwordB of his language, K and exnaeVto exhaust his ncanty vo v cabulayy within a week or so. The h dte& and f0,k lore sccurcd from him J&u& far Bro considered priceless. NThe man, driven from tho moun H': tainB, by forest flree, was caught near '' OrovMe. a few days ago, whllo at- B tempUng to steal meat. B At present the aborigine is Iri tho V peculiar position of having a namo m Jot his own. "Ishi" the anthropol- , bglsts call hlra which la short and ' flaor and means'man' in u tonguo !. of the southern Yaki Indiana, Ills iribe. "When conversational relations T vero established, Ishi -was asked to E tell his real name, but ho explained H that tribady speaking this would bo "- sad form, It being customary for a K man to 'be named aloud only by somb R other member of his tribe. K Thore being, so far as Isknovn, no A other living member, the request of H" ( profs. A..L. Kroeber and T. T. Wator- aan, who are Ishl's temporary guard H; "Jans, clearly was Impossible and they M Withdrew it with apologies. K -By way of putting them at their B- tbse. the ''savage," with ready tact, H suggests that thoy dovlse a namo foi R him, and "Ishi" was tho result. B Th pfofessors also learned that m- Jfehl would not discuss his dead. That, ' U2til recently, other members of his B; tribe have 'been allvo was Indicated B Ot 1b closely singed hair, the sign of B mourning among the Yahl. This short R hair greatly puzzled Ishl's captors, al- R though he told them willingly enough R- how it was dono. R ' At his theory of tho origin of fire, R the scientists almost danced with joy. R it connects Intimately with, the myth- -f ology of other California tribes, and R trilKJ3 east of the Sierras, and with R that of the Greeks and Romans. It R involves a superior or supreme being, '; tho coyote, who stole the fire, and R , transmitted It to the Yahls either vol- B '( ' untarlly or because he had to do so. R '"tyTion Ishi wearied of talking, Prof. B' Waterman offered him a bow and B ' arrow, found by some university ex- V; A pcdltlon. The old man, who Is over &'-' sixty , brightened up and walked out- BLVsIde. A hat was put on a post 100 Bvm ct avray and Ishl spcd h,s Elrst r H-ttow through tho center of its crown. Kyo Bhot another atthe same range K through a newspaper j t tho exact in- itersoctipn of its folds, ind made some B ' other fancy shots. Is method ot B . 'handling the bow is ssld to be differ- B ' V nt rom tnat foun(l a' ooug any other R '-,. tribe., ft B ; 'Ishl's one garment fly hecn re- L-' placed by trousers, shjMpiUaecktlc. B,fref.uBgs,tp rcrnqvRgof: them BttBRBtfHBrom G Rs in RVng, Pro-RpL Pro-RpL Qba- RoDO Krcsence Resentlal to H-eaftcr. |