![]() ![]() Theodora and Alfred Kroeber were both anthropologists. Once he began his work with California anthropologists, however, he became a resource on the Yahi way of life, teaching academics and museum visitors about his culture, which, without his efforts and the efforts of the anthropologists who helped translate his words, would have been completely lost. Ishi, found outside a slaughterhouse in 1911, was unable to communicate and an enigma to local authorities. Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (1961), a biography by Theodora Kroeber, tells the story of Ishi, the last known Native American of the Yahi tribe of Northern California, who worked closely with Kroeber's husband, Alfred, at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. ![]()
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