KROEBER, Theodora - Ishi in Two World - (Hardcover about an American Indian)

University of California Press - 1962 - 3rd Printing. Hardbound - 255 pages. - bibliography behind - Decorated endpapers. - Includes a map, a few simple drawings, and a number of black and white photo plates. - Ishi was a Yahi Indian, the last survivor of his tribe. In 1911, he wandered, exhausted and desperate with hunger, into the small town of Oroville in northern California. He was eventually brought to San Francisco by Professor T T Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology. His name was given to him by Professor Alfred Louis Kroeber (Ishi being the Yahi word for man). The first part of this book is a reconstruction of the life Ishi was born into, and the fear-ridden years of the Yahi tribe that formed Ishi's youth and most of his manhood. The second portion of the book tells of the remainder of his life --a mere five years -- in San Francisco. The author was married to Alfred L Kroeber, Isis' ''Chiep''. She knew personally all the people who figured in Ishi's discovery and in his life in the white world. Foreword by Lewis Gannett. 

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