The White Man's Story

Two weeks later, ishi walked into a clearing, nar a slaughter house, and into the white man's world. The anthropologists had been bringing indians from all over california to record their songs and stories with these wax cylinders. Eventually, they found some words from another tribe that isshy could understand. A week later, isshy was taken from oreville to a new museum at the university of california in san francisco - headed by ursula degin's father,. It was he who named isshi. It means man in yahi. Ishi never revealed his true name.