| Show LIVE MAN FROM THE TI-TE STONE AGE TO TELL HOW STONE AGE MEN BEHAVED BEHA HUN the University of Califor California's W WHEN nias nia's new museum of ot anthropOlogy anthropology anthropology anthro anthro- was formally opened two weeks ago the most Interesting exhibit was the thc most aboriginal man In tho the world orld today Is IB a stone atone ago man Although he IB is living In our time lime be he Is not of ofus us uL He belongs to the paleolithic period pe pe- He Ile Is exact exactly years behind the ho times Introduction to civilization was the he result of an accident All hi his lIfo ho had dwelt dielt In the fastnesses fast nesses of Deer Creek Creck a rocky and precipitous precipitous precipitous pre pre- can canyon n in Tehama county Cal- Cal A few weeks ago ngo a n. forest fire broke out in that region and had md to flee for his life lite Ho was vas treed b by dogs near noar a slaughter house hO three miles from Oroville His HII discovery discover Y there here Is lIS regarded as 08 one one of the most I Important anthropological finds finde of the age In I hl science sees for the first time Ume In flesh Mesh and blood the th ago age man our oar knowledge of whom has hitherto hitherto hitherto hith hith- erto been boen confined to fossil remains and the tho evidence artor afforded ell b by prehistorIc prehistoric prehistoric Implements Implement According to Professor T T. T T T. T Waterman Waterman Water Water- ater- ater man of the University of ot California who has kept under constant observation observation observation ob ob- ob- ob since the day hc lie was wan found the conditions under which this savage savage savage sav sav- age lived lIve all his hta life Ute corr correspond spond precisely pre pre- with those of prehistoric man manIn mann Jn In n the chipped stone atone period never fashioned pottery All his hilS utensils wore oro of stone lie made mado fire tire by rubbing between his palms a small round stick fitted Into a groove groo In a a. cedar block In this way he can generate generate gen Ion erate a flame In fifty seconds He used a bow and arrow tipped UPPed with stone and lured wild animals to him b by Imitating Imitating Imi Imi- tating their call With a bow and ar arrow arrow arrow ar- ar row used aa as exhibits in the tho museum Ishi Ish I easily hit the center conter of ot a hat at ata ata a a. distance of ot feet foot When captured he wore thong e through his I nose nse and aud cars and a bearskin boar bear skin his loins Joins In fishing h hJ e puts four sacred sticks sticks' or bits of ot woo wool wood Into th the water near tho the four tour corners corner o of ot the net and then thon calls tho sh wit wita n a a peculiar chant that Insures success In hunting bears bear's b Mis he bc lies In wait walt alon g their trail and when a n. bear comes with In n fifty feet teel of or him ho calls to It In Ina Ina ina a lan language which It understands The animal turns and faces him on tho the trail rail and he ho sends an arrow through Its heart icart The Tho skins of ot his prey proy he uses as s raiment Is tho the sole survivor of the southern south south- orn ern rn Yana tribe lIe Hc Is tho only person In n the world orld who knows tho the sou southern thorn Yana ana IIo Ile speaks 8 a dialect distinct ami pe- pe ullar cullar and unlike that spoken by any other thoi American J Indian The Tho language spoken by the Yana or Mill Creak Cicek Indians In- In ians Is really comprised od of two languages lan- lan one spoken by tho men and the tho lie other by the women Nearly every word differs In Its ita termination or In some omo other wa way according as It was wn was t uttered by rr or fem females los A Ausband husband talking with his wife had hadeed need eed th therefore of ot speaking speaking- one language lan- lan guage and of possessing at least leant an nn understanding of another This unwieldy 1 dualism of languages language Aeo Is s almost unparalleled it occurs among mong omon tho the who were discovered ered In tho the W West Yest est Indies b by the successors successors suc- suc of ot Columbus but In that instance In- In stance tanco however howe tho the women omen of at the tribe mostly captives es from other Islands glands They taught the language to their heir daughters daughters the sons eona spoke e ethe the he speech of or their heir fathers tho the fact that he lived un under undertone or tone stone age rue condl conditions tl n Ishi dO does docs 9 not correspond cor- cor respond to what the tho stono steno ago age man Is le presumed presume to havo have been either elthor mentally mental mental- I ly y or physically The rhe Indian Is ro- ro bright a and d in seven soven or eight years cars Professor ProCessor Waterman says he NOW Ho HC Talk Talks In the Phonograph r ri rr r i I II I I l could probably absorb tho the knowledge e possessed b by tho the ordinary Individual IntI Up to the time of at his capture had never come Into contact with tho the whites in an any way Tho The southern bouthern Yana Yana Ya Ya- Ya na nn Indians lived outside of tho the area arca of ot Spanish land grants rants In California CC and andis is when hen In 1306 the tho pioneers encroached upon tho the grou grounds ds of or tho the Indians there resulted a few bitter tl fights In which all ail but about twelve of ot the Yanas were massacred For Tor years ears the Mill Creeks lived In tha Stem Stoa Age Man i y 4 4 f s 's s' s f 4 46 t f ki 4 r tl r g gr r H ff t y terror of ot the tine whites Their canyon can n abounds in brush and Is one of or the th the 0 moat impenetrable localities In In th the e west Up to th the tho time limo of Ishi's capture there are aro but hut two recorded Instances instance s where here tho the Yanas were seen Once In 1870 1370 when two hunters ran lan across their thel r camp and once In 1309 when hen n a party of surveyors surprised a n part party y of five o naked ed Indians who dove Into o the brush For the tho lust last two years the tho de department do- do of anthropology has hus been trying to find the tho Indians and last spring spent a month In the c can non en t on with trailing dogs dog's but without re re e suits The rhe professors of ot tho the university have as vet vot been unable to Father gather g anything definite concerning Ishi's s religious religious re- re beliefs or re regarding other othor members mom mom- mom mom- hors bora of ot his tribe The Indian will not speak of his dead However he has related somo some of his superstitions which aro are closely connected with or are perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps a a. part of or his religion He believes that originally the fire was stolen from a foolish god b by tho the coyote who wino Is alwn always s 's a thief and th that t man stole the fire tire from the coyote When a member of his tribe dies ho be singes his hla black ek hair short hort with a 3 live JIve coal and pulls the wh whiskers from his face faco ono one b by one ono lohl Ishi has no use for tor the short story stor His shortest anecdote the tho story of ot U U tut No Ne the Wood Duck required phonograph records ty-two ty of ot anthropology Is s nt Tho The department of ot knowledge graduallY acquiring a many of his bis words the source of He Ho Made Fire Fir While a Month Ago Ago with Stick 1 I b r knowledge being to have Ishi point to I r objects In the museum of ot anthropology I and give their names |
