"Wild Indian! sparkles
as a thought-provoking, enjoyable jewel." --Bob Hicks, The Sunday Oregonian
Ishi on August 29, 1911
Kroeber
and Ishi
late in 1911
HISTORICAL NOTE: Ishi was the last of the Yahi who lived on Deer
Creek
near Mount Lassen (Waganupa) in northern California. Before dawn one
day
in 1911 he entered the modern world. A newspaper account of his capture
was read by Professor Alfred Kroeber, an anthropologist at the
University
of California, and Ishi was brought to San Francisco where Kroeber
directed
the Museum of Anthropology. It was in the museum that Ishi willingly
spent
the rest of his life as a living exhibit--the last of his Stone Age
people.
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Black Wings A jazz-blues-gospel-country musical
by Theodore Shank
with Music by William
Harper
