Alfred Kroeber
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Alfred Louis Kroeber was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his PhD under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia. He was also
Kroeber in 1920
Kroeber (left) with Ishi in 1911
Ishi
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Ishi was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States. The rest of the Yahi were killed in the California genocide in the 19th
Alfred Kroeber
…role in the early days of its Museum of Anthropology, where he served as director from 1909 through 1947. Kroeber provided detailed information about Ishi, the last surviving member of the Yahi people, whom he studied over a period of years. He was the father of the author Ursula K. Le Guin. Kroeber was…
Ishi portrait
Ishi, August 29, 1911: Deer Creek Indian The Wild Man
Ishi, 1912