Representing Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous peoples variously depicted as exotic, innocent or child-like, savage, mysterious, less civilized, heathen -- anything but equal to the Spanish
Initiated a long history of European-perpetuated myths of adoring and child-like natives alongside myths of irredeemably cruel natives
Further depiction of natives as welcoming Christianity and the missionaries (Pohl fig 1.1)
Still further concept of natives as ìnoble savagesî(from Dryden, later developed by Rousseau)
Often depicted in European sources in poses customary to European art, with either exaggerated ìsavageî features or domesticated Europeanized features.