Word: kroeber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...canvas thrown over his shoulders. Weak and emaciated, he spoke not a word of English or any other known language. It was days before anyone could communicate with him and learn who he was. Now, half a century later, a new book, Ishi in Two Worlds, by Historian Theodora Kroeber (University of California Press; $5.95), recalls that human relic of a long-forgotten...
Professor Waterman and the museum's chief, Professor Alfred Louis Kroeber, recognized Ishi as the unspoiled survivor of a vanished race. They soon became his devoted friends and admirers. When Ishi arrived in San Francisco, he had no words, even in Yahi, for most of the things he saw. English came slowly to him. Like many conservative, middle-aged men, he was a stickler for the proprieties. His native language had special forms to be spoken by men and women; for a man to use a female word when talking to other men was extremely bad manners. So Ishi...