Ishi in two worlds; a biography of the last wild Indian in North America. / With a foreword by Lewis Gannett.
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.
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- Physical Description: 255 pages. : illustrations, portraits, maps. ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1961.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Bibliography: pages 245-255.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Ishi the Yahi. Outside the slaughter house -- Copper-colored people on a golden land -- A living people -- A dying people -- Episodes in extermination -- The long concealment -- The Yahi disappear -- Mister Ishi. Outside the jail -- Ishi's new world -- Life in a museum -- The craftsman -- The brightest year -- Death in a museum.
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