Race Card in Bigfootry = “likely Caucasoid skin”?

M. K. Davis began releasing information publicly on November 26, 27, 30, and on December 3, 2006, to promote a film project he reportedly was doing with Pat Holdbrook. Concurrently, Davis and a filmmaker began discussing and promoting to the public another film project.

The following details the 2006 release of Davis’s information leaks of what he and his associates mutually said they were seeing in the Patterson-Gimlin footage. Such material included postings on sticks, the unfortunate “digger Indian” episode, responses and apologies. This is not about re-opening old wounds. Instead, it is about checking in, in quiet pursuit of knowledge, months later.

No one forced them to release any of their alleged information or their statements, of course. While patience was being asked in 2006 by them, Davis’s continued release of parts of what he promised to present in both films was for public consumption by Davis, Holdbrook, and the filmmaker (who doesn’t want his name even mentioned any longer).

Read of this now, reflectively, to decide if any of the “evidence” presented in the last 18 months has confirmed the earlier promised claims. With M.K. Davis hitting the spring and summer Bigfoot lecture circuit anew (from Ohio next weekend to California in August), he needs to answer questions he raised in the fall of 2006. Where is his promised alleged startling evidence for Bigfoot being some type of “Caucasoid” subhuman, with a digging stick in its hand?

Please read below closely, as some of what you will read is the filmmaker’s, not Davis’s, interpretations, within that individual’s release, including the quote in the title above.

This person behind the initial claims is the “producer, videographer and editor of the upcoming Davis release,” as he has noted above his name via his comments sent in to Cryptomundo, also as “wildphotographer” – which if sent in are thus released for use on Cryptomundo. (Read your “Terms of Use.”)

This person has also publicly posted (Dec 6, 2006, 3:09 PM) as Wildphotographer, the following paragraph, under the heading “Concerning MK’s evidence” – reposted here according to “fair use” for rebuttal commentary below:

(1) The implied logic in these series of statements convey that something is to be deduced in the name of Gigantopithecus blacki.

Of course, nothing other than mandibles (jawbones) and teeth have been found for Gigantopithecus. No one knows what a Gigantopithecus looks like, really. No cranial or facial features for Gigantopithecus can be fully assumed from the teeth and mandibles that have been found, despite Dr. Grover Krantz’s and others’ reconstructions, which all are based on thoughtful speculation.

(2) Some great apes carry sticks and manipulated sticks that do not translate into them having any culture. Read more about this aspect here.

(3) The scientific name Gigantopithecus blacki, of course, has nothing to do with the color of Gigantopithecus, its fur or its skin, as such details are impossible to tell from the fossils found.

In 1935, German paleontologist Ralph von Koenigswald discovered the teeth that led him to declare his find a new primate. The species name von Koenigswald picked, G. blacki, was bestowed in honor of the discoverer of the so-called “Peking Man” (Homo erectus), Davidson Black (1884–1934), a Canadian paleoanthropologist, who spent most of his adult life digging for fossils in China. The species specific portion of the name, simply stated, Gigantopithecus blacki, is after a famed colleague, not the color of the great ape’s skin tone.

(4) White or pale skin color is found in various species of primates. It has nothing to do with these primates having “Caucasoid skin,” which may be a misnomer in this usage, as the affinity for Bigfoot is not established, for a variety of reasons. Indeed, in great apes, some chimpanzees – depending on factors related to age, range, and subspecies – have “white skin.”

The photographs posted within this blog illustrate this point specifically for chimpanzees.

Okay, eighteen months later, in all calmness, where’s the evidence for the earlier claims of “new discoveries” seen in the Patterson-Gimlin footage by M. K. Davis and his associates?

I am encouraged by the thoughtful responses to this blog. As an update, everyone may wish to examine in some depth Roger Knights’ full comment below, of which I wish to point out this sentence:

Of course, the promises of much to come is to be read in what we hear indirectly from Davis again, and I look forward to seeing and hearing more about this after Davis’s “surprises” are revealed at Don Keating’s gathering on May 17th.

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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