Ishi; Last of His Tribe

8vo. [6], 1-207, [1] pp. Yellow cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several in-text drawings. Drawings by Ruth Robbins. Richard H. Dillon, American Dictionary National Biography, "Ishi". Nancy Rockafellar, "The Story of Ishi: A Chronology". Theodora Kroeber was married to Alfred Kroeber, an anthropologist at the University of San Francisco. 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. 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. It is remarked that Ishi was the last Neolithic (Stone Age) Native American to have existed. His tribe, the Yahi, was victim to a number of massacres throughout the 19th century, at the hands of farmers, gold miners, and other European-Americans. Ishi himself died of Tuberculosis in 1916. At the end of his life he became close to Alfred Kroeber and a few other faculty members of the University. This is the partially-fictionalized version of Ishi in Two Worlds, which was published in 1961. Both of Kroeber's books portray Ishi's story, particularly his last years of life. A beautiful copy.…