Not even Ishi's. However, the newspapers did not even give Ishi credit for being human. Grant Wallace was a reporter for the San Francisco Sunday Call, who arranged for Ishi to go to the Orpheum Theater. This account was apparently made up from the reporter's imagination. I believe the newspapers had to call Ishi primitive in order to rationalize what the white man did to the Indians.
Rationalization is a psychological defense to justify one's doing terrible things.
Once it becomes conscious, it no longer works. One way to rationalize terrible behavior towards other people is to dehumanize them. This frequently happens in wartime propaganda, when one calls the enemy a gook instead of a person. I believe this is why the media described Ishi as savage. The newspaper writers honestly believed what they wrote, because they honestly believed that the white man' s race and culture were superior to all others.