Her work stretched fifty years from the early 1920s into the 1970s her writing about Ishi was based primarily on her husband's experiences working with him at the Museum of Anthropology from 1911 to Ishi's death in 1915. Theodora spent much of her life writing about Ishi and creating published story collections of folktales and myths from a number of tribes from northern California. Theodora and Alfred Kroeber were both anthropologists. Once he began his work with California anthropologists, however, he became a resource on the Yahi way of life, teaching academics and museum visitors about his culture, which, without his efforts and the efforts of the anthropologists who helped translate his words, would have been completely lost. Ishi, found outside a slaughterhouse in 1911, was unable to communicate and an enigma to local authorities. Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (1961), a biography by Theodora Kroeber, tells the story of Ishi, the last known Native American of the Yahi tribe of Northern California, who worked closely with Kroeber's husband, Alfred, at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley.
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