print email comment close Ishi's Long Road Home: A California Indian's Preserved Brain Accentuates His Tragic, Mysterious Life URL: http://se02.xif.com/articles/20000108/bob8.asp Description: An article about the search for the brain of Ishi, the Yahi Indian whose last years were lived in a museum of anthropology. From 1917 to 1999, the preserved brain was stored in the Smithsonian Institution. Written for the January 8, 2000 issue of Science News Online, the article describes the first steps toward returning the brain to descendants of Ishi's people for ceremonial burial. Author: Bower, Bruce Publisher: Science Service Library of Congress Subject Headings: Human remains (Archaeology) -- Repatriation Indians of North America -- California Ishi, d. 1916 Yana Indians LII Database Information: Record 2692 created by Wendy Hyman on 05/03/2002 Last modification on 05/03/2008 Published: 05/03/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2692