Ishi in two worlds
Subtitle: a biography of the last wild Indian in North America
By: by Theodora Kroeber ; with a foreword by Lewis Gannett
Edition: 1st paper-bound ed.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Yana Indians
Description: Tells the story of Ishi, the last member of the lost tribe of Yana, who wandered out of the hills on August 29, 1911 and was taken in by anthropologists at the University of California where he spent the last years of his life.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [245]-255.
Table of contents: title: Pt.1. 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; title: Pt. 2. Mister Ishi : Outside the jail ; Ishi's new world ; Life in a museum ; The craftsman ; The brightest year ; Death in a museum.