Editing Lucayan people (section)

=== Appearance ===
Columbus thought the Lucayans resembled the [[Guanches|Guanche]] of the [[Canary Islands]], in part because they were intermediate in skin color between Europeans and Africans. He described the Lucayans as handsome, graceful, well-proportioned, gentle, generous and peaceful, and customarily going almost completely naked.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}<!-- This is supported by one of the three sources cited at the bottom of the paragraph. I don't have any of them at hand right now (I don't know how long it will take me to get back my copies of Albury and Craton), but I remember writing this paragraph, and everything I included came from one of those three books. User:Donald Albury --> [[Peter Martyr d'Anghiera]] said that the Lucayan women were so beautiful that men from "other countries" moved to the islands to be near them. Women past puberty wore a small skirt of cotton, and the men might wear a loincloth made of plaited leaves or cotton.{{Sfnm|Albury|1975|1pp=14–16|Craton|1986|2pp=17, 18, 20–21|Sauer|1966|3pp=31–32}}

Some people wore head bands, waist bands, feathers, bones and ear and nose jewelry on occasion. They were often tattooed and usually applied paint to their bodies and/or faces. They also practiced [[head flattening]]. Their hair was black and straight, and they kept it cut short except for a few hairs in back which were never cut. Columbus reported seeing scars on the bodies of some of the men, which were explained to him as resulting from attempts by people from other islands to capture them.{{Sfnm|Albury|1975|1pp=14–16|Craton|1986|2pp=17, 18, 20–21|Sauer|1966|3pp=31–32}}