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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...
...KARL KROEBER...
They are: Dorothea Reynolds Hanson of Cambridge and Kirkland House, Marguerite Jupp of Milwaukee and Golman House. Ursula Kroeber of New York and Everett Hall, Carol Ress of West Hartford, Conn. and Cabot Hall, and Claire Seyman Ritcher of Mattapan and Moors Hall...
...Kroeber will give two half-courses, the first for undergraduates and the second primarily for graduates. During the fall he will conduct Social Relations 22 on "The Nature of Culture," a course not originally scheduled for next year. In the spring he will have Social Relations 222, a somewhat similar course for graduates...