Ummm ackchully the powdered wig look didn’t take off until the mid-16th century (funny enough, started because of the syphilis epidemic, a disease which came from contact with the New World) and was reserved for the wealthy elite at the time. Most sailors getting off the first boats would’ve just been wiry, deformed, and pock-marked hunchbacks ☺️☺️
Can you not have a bit of respect? Some of us are tryin’ to bask in moon glow!
Imagine the smell
The first eldridge horror.
Didn’t some Native American tribes paint their faces too though?
The reveal at the end of apocalypto has always stuck with me in my mind.
I read an account somewhere once, about how these chiseled natives were met by the Europeans. Pudgy, pale, balding, Europeans. I can imagine the European women at seeing those badass men next to theirs.
Yeah no. Your typical worker arriving on a ship would not have been fat/overweight, and it’s unlikely that typical native Americans looked like they spent serious time in a gym lol
I also dunno why you’d think only Europeans have age-related hair loss
Tbf https://www.belgraviacentre.com/blog/native-americans-and-hair-loss
“Completely immune”
Also scurvy is gross, wasn’t solved until 1700s
