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 ☺️☺️

They wouldn’t have seen that

Admittedly, if you were on some isolated area and this came off a boat you'd think you're being invaded by aliens, too.

The first eldridge horror.

Didn’t some Native American tribes paint their faces too though?

BTW Conquistadores Adventum is a really good show about the colonization of Americas. It shows how tough the sailing was but also how brutal the conquest was and tells the stories of people behind it.

I prob feel the same looking at him now.

The reveal at the end of apocalypto has always stuck with me in my mind.

DEMONS FROM BEYOND THE SEA

The animated version of that encounter: https://youtu.be/0bkJzpo-mNI?si=6nFUv3iptrcRldvW