Thomas Talbot Waterman (April 23, 1885 – January 6, 1936) was an American anthropologist.
Early life
Waterman was born in Hamilton, Missouri, and raised in Fresno, California.
Education
Waterman matriculated University of California, Berkeley in Hebrew, later at Columbia University, New York completed a Ph.D. in Anthropology.
Career
Waterman brought Ishi, from Oroville, California, to the Affiliated Colleges Museum.
Personal life
Waterman married Grace Godwin in 1910, later, Ruth Dulaney in 1927, fathering Helen Maria and Thomas Talbot Jr.
Partial list of works
The Yana Indians (1908) Religious Practices of the Diegueño Indians (1910) The phonetic elements of the Northern Paiute language (Berkeley: University Press, 1911)
(2012). Yurok Geography (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology; Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1920) Source book in anthropology, (1920, with A. L. Kroeber) Waterman, T.T., 1922. The Geographical Names Used by the Indians of the Pacific Coast. American Geographical Society 12(2):175–194 Native Houses of Western North America