2006-10-27 08:44:35 · 7 answers · asked by Bernard E Told you so! 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Caribs were similar in appearance to the Ciboney and Arawak Indians although they plucked their beards because they believed them to be a deformity. The Caribs also flattened the fronts and backs of their children's heads to make them beautiful and, they scarred and painted their own bodies for the same purpose. Here is a description made by one of Columbus's companions as part of a report on these people to be submitted to the Spanish Monarchs in 1492:
"It appeared to me to be a race of people very poor in everything. They go as naked as when their mothers bore them, and so do the women, although I did not see more than one young girl. All I saw were youths, none more than thirty years of age. They are very well made, with very handsome bodies, and very good countenances. Their hair is short and coarse, almost like the hairs of a horse's tail. They wear the hairs brought down to the eyebrows, except a few locks behind, which they wear long and never cut. They paint themselves black, and they are the color of the Canarians, neither black nor white. Some paint themselves white, others red, and others of what color they find. Some paint their faces, others the whole body, some only round the eyes, others only on the nose. They neither carry nor know anything of arms, for I showed them swords, and they took them by the blade and cut themselves through ignorance. They have no iron, their darts being wands without iron, some of them having a fish's tooth at the end, and others being pointed in various ways. They are all of fair stature and size, with good faces, and well made. I saw some with marks of wounds on their bodies, and I made signs to ask what it was, and they gave me to understand that people from other adjacent islands came with the intention of seizing them, and that they defended themselves."
2006-10-27 22:07:41 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CARIBIAN, is spelt Caribbean. And they looked like my Dad after he has been drinking white rum with his friends.
2006-10-27 15:59:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They looked like The Incas
2006-10-27 17:17:20 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they were Native American Indians.
2006-10-27 15:53:03 · answer #4 · answered by GB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My ingrowing toenail
2006-10-27 15:54:52 · answer #5 · answered by bigal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
native americans. rather asian looking
2006-10-27 16:29:59 · answer #6 · answered by eric y 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you spelled caribean wrong.
2006-10-27 16:04:35 · answer #7 · answered by robert j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋