The Davis Report-The Unusualness of the Human Gene. There are many examples of unusual features found on humans from around the globe. This group below are the Yagans. Now that is not what they called themselves. They called themselves the Yamana. They lived at the bottom of the world, that is the southern tip of South America in the coastal areas of Tierra del Fuego. In that harsh environment, where it rains or sleets and snows over 300 days out of the year, and the water temperature is around 35 degrees, these people rarely dressed in anything at all. Occasionally an otter pelt shawl but most of the time completely naked.
When Charles Darwin weighed anchor with the Beagle, that is his research ship, off shore in that area, the Yamana came out in canoes. He said that he was greeted by a woman with an infant at her breast. It was sleeting on them both, and neither thought anything of it. The Yamana have very unusual feet. They have very long toes that resemble the fingers of the hand. They were said to grasp rocks with their feet to anchor themselves in gale force wind.
When they would get sleepy, they would curl up on a bare rock and sleep out in the open and wind. Here are some stills taken of the Yagans or Yamana, before they became extinct. The men were said to suffer from a mental condition called Psycho neurosis. They would go into a trance and become violent. Often they would have themselves tied up before the trance fully gripped them, and freed when it was over. The language was gutteral and very difficult to translate. They were gone, like so many other peoples
before anyone could adequately study them.
Poster Comment:
Look at the toes, particularly those of the man on the right and then imagine getting a "foot job" from that pretty little thang squatting next to him....
And, some of you may recall The STORY OF ZANA: A SKELETON STILL BURIED AND A STORY UNEARTHED
ZANA was a female Bigfoot or something that was captured and trained to do chores for the Russian villagers where she lived the remainder of her days in the late 19th century.
The similarity between Zana and the "Yamanas Of Tierra del Fuego" that brought her to mind was that she too was impervious to extreme cold and she could swim in icy rivers. Zana was also fond of alcohol and after getting her drunk she'd pass out (as the men probably hoped for when feeding liquor to the village's newest and most available debutante) and the local men would "have their way with her". (Considering how unattractive some obviously Asiatic Russian women are it may not be as shocking as it seems, unless the men went down on her of course)
Anyway, Zana was impregnated and after delivering her first child she attempted to bathe it in an icy stream and the human hybrid child died. Her subsequent offspring were taken from her and raised by the villagers, and they were apparently "human enough" to speak (Zana couldn't although she understood commands such as "chop firewood" and "reverse cowgirl, sweetheart"-just kidding about the last-sawwy)
Below is the exhumed skull of "Zana's son Khwit (which) exhibits a combination of ancient and modern features (and) aroused great interest amongst anthropologists"