Real and fake images of Native Americans

Some Afrocentrists post images of so called "black natives" on social media, trying to prove that they were in the Americas already before Native Americans. But  many of those pictures are "black" (in the meaning of African looking) simply because the artists who made them (many times Europeans who never left Europe) never saw any real Native Americans, and had no real impression of what they looked like. Instead these artists modeled  their pictures after Africans who they often were more familiar with.

If those pictures are compared with pictures made by painters who actually visited, or lived in the Americas, or at least saw real native Americans in Europe, one can clearly se the differences.

Jus a couple of examples:

A fantasy image of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma from a European book from 1671, 151 years after his death, compared with an image made by members of his own people just a couple of decades after his death.

African inspired picture made by Johann Ihle 1794 of an alleged native from Tierra Del Fuego in South America (Ihle never visited Tierra del Fuego or saw any real Fuegians), compared with a picture of a real Fuegian made by Conrad Martens who travelled with the ship Beagle and actually visited Tierra del Fuego and saw the natives there.

French picture of a so called "Wild native in America", but originally a picture of an African, compared with a painting of a real Native American painted by John White, who actually saw, and described the peoples he painted.

If one study old images with a critical eye, and put in some research one can gradually learn which pictures are real depictions of Native Americans and which are not.