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Ishi in two worlds : a biography of the last wild Indian in North America / by Theodora Kroeber ; with a foreword by Lewis Gannett.
- Title
- Ishi in two worlds : a biography of the last wild Indian in North America / by Theodora Kroeber ; with a foreword by Lewis Gannett.
- Author
- Kroeber, Theodora.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1967, c1961.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | Mus3399.35.47 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 255 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [245]-255.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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 -- Pt. 2. Mister Ishi : Outside the jail ; Ishi's new world ; Life in a museum ; The craftsman ; The brightest year ; Death in a museum.
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library