FRONTIERS OF ZOOLOGY
Dale A. Drinnon has been a researcher in the field of Cryptozoology for the past 30+ years and has corresponded with Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan T. Sanderson. He has a degree in Anthropology from Indiana University and is a freelance artist and writer. Motto: "I would rather be right and entirely alone than wrong in the company with all the rest of the world"--Ambroise Pare', "the father of modern surgery", in his refutation of fake unicorn horns.
Saturday, 10 November 2012
Bald-Headed Hairy Wildmen
In one of my Facebook groups, One member asked about the term "Hairy Man" and I posted a series of historical images much the same as Pearl Prihoda collects. One of them-the first one I reproduced here-showed a creature hairy all over but with a completely bald head. I mentioned that you get that sometimes in reports, but I also thought the shape of the head might be significant. Here I made a comparison with a Neanderthal skull and two older reconstructions; the skull and one of the reconstructions have a peak up on top in back, and the drawing from the 1790s shows a projection at the back of the head (a "Bun") which some Neanderthals had.
BTW, Pearl P sent me a very old story about another different Wild Man that was hairy all over and completely bald on top, originating from the 1100s, after this chart was made up.
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