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It's more that evil tribal savages tropes originate from flanderzed stereotypes of Mesoamerican stuff: 17 century Europeans who weren't familiar with the Indigenous Americas often blended Spanish descriptions of Mesoamerica (the Cortes expedition/the Aztec and their cities, sacrifices) with stuff from Indigenous tribes from Brazil (with them being mostly naked and with big headdresses) as a result of the specific way certain accounts got published and what art, clothing, and people were shipped over and put on display in Europe and that blended together to become a genericized image of "The Americas" in the minds of Europeans
For example, see this commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philippe_Sylvestre_Dufour_Chocolat_17th_century.jpg which shows a generic depiction of a Near Eastern, Asian, and an Indigenous American with Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate drinks; or pic related, shows Moctezuma II with Brazilian dress but also Tenochtitlan with with more European Style architecture.
This kind of depiction then combined with specific nationalistic imagery produced by Mexican artists like Jesus Helguera (whose art is also not super accurate, often taking big liberties, but is certainly not as bad) from the early 20th century to produce a lot of Mesoamerican visual stereotypes we know today, with Apocalypto also being a major trendsetter.
You can see the presence of all 3 of those major visual trope codifiers in the left side of >>149548951: Apocalypto itself is there, and you can also havily see it's influence in the Shadow of the Tomb Raider design. By contrast, the Concheros/Danza Azteca outfits take influence from Helguera's work with some of the 17th century tropes mixed in (which itself also influenced Apocalypto to a degree), and obviously the 17th century artwork at the top left can also be compared to the 17th century art I linked before with more "tribal" naked Aztec warriors but with Tenochtitlan given more European buildings.
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>>149548646
It's more that evil tribal savages tropes originate from flanderzed stereotypes of Mesoamerican stuff: 17 century Europeans who weren't familiar with the Indigenous Americas often blended Spanish descriptions of Mesoamerica (the Cortes expedition/the Aztec and their cities, sacrifices) with stuff from Indigenous tribes from Brazil (with them being mostly naked and with big headdresses) as a result of the specific way certain accounts got published and what art, clothing, and people were shipped over and put on display in Europe and that blended together to become a genericized image of "The Americas" in the minds of Europeans
For example, see this commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philippe_Sylvestre_Dufour_Chocolat_17th_century.jpg which shows a generic depiction of a Near Eastern, Asian, and an Indigenous American with Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate drinks; or pic related, shows Moctezuma II with Brazilian dress but also Tenochtitlan with with more European Style architecture.
This kind of depiction then combined with specific nationalistic imagery produced by Mexican artists like Jesus Helguera (whose art is also not super accurate, often taking big liberties, but is certainly not as bad) from the early 20th century to produce a lot of Mesoamerican visual stereotypes we know today, with Apocalypto also being a major trendsetter.
You can see the presence of all 3 of those major visual trope codifiers in the left side of >>149548951: Apocalypto itself is there, and you can also havily see it's influence in the Shadow of the Tomb Raider design. By contrast, the Concheros/Danza Azteca outfits take influence from Helguera's work with some of the 17th century tropes mixed in (which itself also influenced Apocalypto to a degree), and obviously the 17th century artwork at the top left can also be compared to the 17th century art I linked before with more "tribal" naked Aztec warriors but with Tenochtitlan given more European buildings.
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