Ishi's brain
Subtitle: in search of America's last "wild" Indian
By: Orin Starn
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780393051339
Subjects: Repatriation; Cultural property; Anthropometry; Human remains (Archaeology); Relations with Yana Indians; Yana Indians; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Trails to Ishi --; title: A "compromise between science and sentiment" --; title: The wild man of Deer Creek --; title: Ishi, Alfred, and Theodora --; title: Ishi's ancestors -- Oroville --; title: The destruction of the Yahi --; title: Niche 601 --; title: "Doctor Kroeber's pet buffalo" --; title: The paper trail --; title: The wet collection --; title: Aleš Hrdlička and the great brain hunt --; title: The Maidu go to Washington --; title: Lines of descent --; title: Ancestral gatherings --; title: Grizzly bear's hiding place --; title: The sacred fire --; title: Dersch meadow --; title: Vera's party.