(033229) Starn, Orin. Ishi's Brain: In Search Of America's Last Wild Indian. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. 1st Edition. Paperback. 8vo. 352 pages. Fine with no DJ. Contents: Trails to Ishi -- A "compromise between science and sentiment" --The wild man of Deer Creek -- Ishi, Alfred, and Theodora -- Ishi’s ancestors -- Oroville -- The destruction of the Yahi -- Niche 601 -- " Doctor Kroeber’s pet buffalo" -- The paper trail -- The wet collection -- AlesÌŒ HrdlicÌŒka and the great brain hunt -- The Maidu go to Washington --Lines of descent -- Ancestral gatherings -- Grizzly bear’s hiding place -- The sacred fire -- Dersch meadow -- Vera’s party. After the Yahi were massacred in the mid-nineteenth century, Ishi survived alone for decades in the mountains of northern California. His capture in 1911 made him a nation sensation; anthropologist Alfred Kroeber declared him the world's most uncivilized man and hade Ishi a living exhibit in his museum. He died from tuberculosis ISBN: 9780393326987 (Ishi, Yana Indians, Kroeber, A.L., Kroeber, Theodora, Human Remains)
