Theodora kroeber ishi5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() It is remarked that Ishi was the last Neolithic (Stone Age) Native American to have existed. Kroeber and his colleagues then proceeded to record Ishi's knowledge of the Yahi tribe, language, custom of making bows and arrows, and other cultural practices. In 1911, Alfred Kroeber came to pick Ishi up from the police station which was holding him after he emerged from the woods, driven by hunger and exposure. Theodora Kroeber was married to Alfred Kroeber, an anthropologist at the University of San Francisco. Nancy Rockafellar, "The Story of Ishi: A Chronology". Dillon, American Dictionary National Biography, "Ishi". Illustrated with several in-text drawings. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Yellow cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Oakland, California/Boston: Parnassus Press/Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. ![]()
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