I found the people of this island and all the other islands to be very naked, as I have said, men and women, just as their mothers bore them, but they know not what it is to be shameful, nor to cover their parts, though they wear a cotton thing on the body, like a small apron, if they are grown up, and if they are more than twelve years old, they wear a little loincloth. And they are all of good height, with good bodies and faces, though they are not black but tawny, like the Canary Islanders, and they have straight hair, and not curly. And they are all of good size. And their hair is straight. And they are not black but tawny. And they are all of good size, and their hair is straight and not curly.
— Christopher Columbus
Early Modern
Sailed to the Americas
