Round 9: Tossup 8

Pen and brush drawings were analyzed in a book predominantly collected by a thinker with this surname titled Drawn From Life. That thinker with this surname analyzed folk legends from the Karok and Yurok people in her book The Inland Whale. (10[1])In The Patwin and their Neighbors, a thinker with this surname coined the term “tribelets” to denote social units smaller than a tribe. With Clark Wissler, a thinker with this surname developed the concept of a “culture area,” which pulled from his Handbook of the Indians of California. An anthropologist (10[1])with this surname, the mother of Ursula K. Le Guin, (10[2])published a biography on the “Two Worlds” of the last member of the (10[1])Yahi tribe whom her husband studied. For 10 points, give this surname of Theodora (-5[1])and the student of Franz Boas who studied Ishi, Alfred. ■END■ (10[1]0[6])

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