FOREST AND STREAM 
963 
ISHl, THE INDIAN ARCHER 
T HE following letter has been received from 
Dr. Saxton T. Pope, of the University of 
California, giving a brief account of the 
last days of Ishi, the Indian archer so often men¬ 
tioned in Forest and Stream. It is a fine tribute, 
and will interest all who read it. 
On March 25th Ishi died of a pulmonary hem¬ 
orrhage. He had had tuberculosis about a year. 
Apparently he had no resistance at all to the 
ordinary bronchial infections of civilization, so 
he very soon contracted this prevalent disease. 
We cremated his body at a public cemetery. 
This was his tribal custom. With him we placed 
his trusty bow, a quiver of arrows, his fire sticks 
some obsidian, ten pieces of Indian money, some 
acorn meal, some jerky and a pouch of tobacco. 
What more could a brave man want in the Happy 
Hunting Grounds? 
In his quiver I placed also one arrow of my 
own make—his type—and one from Will H. 
Thompson. 
The incineration was attended only by Prof. 
Watterman, Mr. Gifford, myself and two mem¬ 
bers of the Anthopologic Museum. We were his 
friends and nearest of kin. His ashes are to be 
.put in an Indian jar in a niche at Olivet Ceme¬ 
tery, San Francisco. I made a death mask of 
his face and a cast of his right hand, for preser¬ 
vation in the Museum. 
He left behind him many works of his hands; 
gave us his language, his legends, his customs; 
took us back to the Stone Age in America, and 
unrolled the pages of aboriginal history. He 
was a gentle, wise, clean man; a philosopher who 
looked upon civilization as the clever tricks of 
children. His wisdom and serenity transcended 
the flippant sophisticated age in which we live. 
The white man had robbed him of everything, 
yet he bore no malice. 
He was a sportsman in every principle. In 
archery which he lived in part, when in the 
wilds, he was an accurate game shot, but not a 
good target man. His best scores for the Amer¬ 
ican Round were as follows: 
Oct., 1914 
H. 
s. 
•60 yards. 
. 10 
32 
50 yards. 
95 
40 yards. 
. 19 
99 
49 
226 
March 30, 
1915 
H. 
S. 
60 yards. 
... 13 
51 
50 yards. 
59 
40 yards. 
95 
52 205 
Yet I’ve seen him shoot a squirrel through the 
head at 40 yards. His longest flight shot was 185 
yards. His bow weighed 40 pounds. 
From him I have learned many things in arch¬ 
ery and hunting. All that he taught me I hope 
soon to record in a university publication. It 
represents the minute details of arrow and bow 
making as practiced by a war-like tribe of In¬ 
dians, differing in little from those in America 
at the landing of Columbus. 
These particulars will be of interest to archers 
and historians. 
With him passes the last of those who used 
the bow as a powerful weapon of the chase and 
in war. 
On the clay pot which holds his dust we in¬ 
scribed, “Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, 1916.” 
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