![]() ![]() Theodora Kroeber paints a true but unpretty picture of the conflict between new settlers and old residents, in the white displacement of Indians inhabiting Mr. The “wild man’s” existence as an Indian, as reconstructed in this book’s first section, “Ishi the Yahi,” makes extremely clear his reasons for avoiding the white man’s civilization until pushed to the extreme. ![]() Plausible explanations as to why one lone survivor of an Indian group should choose to remain so long in his solitary primitive world were lacking. Most of the stories told about him were anecdotal, however. There he was to live until his death in 1916.īy the time I arrived at Berkeley as a student some twenty years later, the man “Ishi” had already become a legendary figure. Waterman, and through their efforts found a home at the museum which Phoebe Hearst had established in San Francisco. He was soon “adopted” by University of California anthropologists A. In late August of 1911, butchers at an abbatoir near Oroville, California, called the sheriff to report that dogs had cornered a “wild man” in their corral.ĭuring subsequent days the emaciated and frightened man was detained in the county jail. ![]()
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