| Description |
255 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps. ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [245]-255. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Ishi, -1916.
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Yana Indians.
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| Indexed Term |
Yahi Indians. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Kroeber, Theodora. Ishi in two worlds. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1961 (OCoLC)607769058 |
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