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Sunday, April 10, 2011

UC Berkeley recordings of Ishi added to Library of Congress registry

UC Berkeley recordings of Ishi added to Library of Congress registryRecordings of songs and stories told by Ishi, a Yahi tribe member who was taken in by UC Berkeley anthropologists in the early 1900s, have been added to the Library of Congress registry. Thought to be the last-surviving member of the Northern California Yahi tribe, Ishi emerged from the Mount Lassen foothills and arrived in Oroville in 1911. He was subsequently taken in by UC Berkeley anthropologists Alfred Kroeber and T.T. Waterman, who recorded him at the University of California Museum of Anthropology, then in San Francisco. The recordings have since been held at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Ishi spent his final five years working as a research assistant at the San Francisco-based anthropology museum

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