The "new world body" according the Europeans was entirely contradictory to their views of what a body should look like. The Native Americans were viewed as being extremely bizzare in the way they looked, conducted themselves, ate, and behaved. Because they wore very little ornamentation, there was no real recognition of who had power and who didn't. The Native Americans wore little clothing, which made them seem vastly uncivilized. How they ate was compared to animals, and as being barbaric. Consuming too much food sometimes caused disease and was regarded as a sign of weakness and disfuguration.
Their behavior was considered lazy in some respects but violent in others. The violence and brutality occurred when they so harshly abused women after they were dead. Samuel Hearne described this as "so shocking that it would be indecent to describe it." The body was violent and was also subject to violence. The women's bodies in a way didn't belong to them. They were somewhat powerless and were a bit looked down upon, but had a value of independence about them. The women also were considered as being innocent human beings.
All of this confirmed to the Europeans that they were indeed superior to the Native Americans and thought they had much more powerful than them.
The bodies on the map are somewhat similar to what I described above. The bodies are not clothed very much and the ornamentation is not very great. The bodies are different in that they seem much stronger and fierce because of the weapons they are holding. It almost seems like they can pass as respectable human beings.
