| Edition |
50th anniversary ed. |
| Description |
xxiii, 254 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255). |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Ishi the Yahi. Prologue : 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 ; Epilogue : Death in a museum. |
| Summary |
Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California. Finally identified as an Indian by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco by Professor T.T. Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology. |
| Subject |
Ishi, -1916.
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Yana Indians -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780520271470 (pbk.) |
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0520271475 (pbk.) |
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