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Ishi in Two Worlds

Ishi in Two Worlds A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America

Hardback (01 Jul 1992)

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The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and absorbing drama with readers all over the world.

Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California. Finally identified as an Indian by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco by Professor T. T. Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology.

Book information

ISBN: 9780520006744
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 970.00497
DEWEY edition: 18
Language: English
Number of pages: 262
Weight: 428g
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 22mm