Alfred L. Kroeber (1876-1960)

Ishi, the Last Aborigine

The World's Work, July 1912

"Written not long after Ishi ['the last wild Indian in the United States] came to San Francisco, this article is probably the first published reference to Ishi to appear outside of contemporaneous newspaper reports."

From: Albert A. Elsasser 1972 "The Mill Creek Indians and Ishi: Early reports by A.L. Kroeber."
Berkeley, Lowie Museum.