Ishi in two worlds : a biography of the last wild Indian in North America

Berkeley: University of California, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/good +. A fine first edition in a good plus / very good dust jacket. Copyright and title page both say 1961, Previous owner's gift inscription to first free endpaper. Unclipped jacket with original 5.95 price. Jacket has loss at crown (missing top 1" of jacket) descending into a short tear on the front cover. Minor loss and tears at foot of jacket, short tear to back cover and edgewear on top edge. Jacket now protected in a clear, removeable, archival cover. 255 pp. illustrations, portraits, maps. Octavo. 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. 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." - worldcat