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Theodora Kroeber (/ ˈ k r oʊ b ər / KROH-bər; née Theodora Covel Kracaw; March 24, 1897 – July 4, 1979) was an American writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of several Native Californian cultures.
Written by American author Theodora Kroeber, it was first published in 1961. Ishi had been found alone and starving outside Oroville, California, in 1911. He was befriended by the anthropologists Alfred Louis Kroeber and Thomas Waterman, who took him to the Museum of Anthropology in San Francisco.
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Theodora Kroeber ( KROH-bər; née Theodora Covel Kracaw; March 24, 1897 – July 4, 1979) was an American writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of several Native Californian cultures.
Learn about the life and work of Alfred and Theodora Kroeber, who founded and directed the anthropology department and museum at UC Berkeley. They also studied and wrote about the last surviving Yahi Indian, Ishi, and their story was published by Theodora in 1961.
Theodora Kracaw Kroeber Quinn was a writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe of California, and for her retelling of traditional narratives from several Native Californian cultures.
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Theodora Kroeber (1897—1979) was an American writer and anthropologist who wrote about North American Indians. She is known for her books Ishi in Two Worlds and Ishi: Last of His Tribe, based on her research on the last surviving member of the Yahi people.
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Theodora Kroeber was an American writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of several Native Californian cultures. Born in Denver, Colorado, Kroeber grew up in the mining town of Telluride, and worked briefly as a nurse.
