Tusken Real Appearance Right Under our Noses???

What do we make of the figure with his/her back to us that's showing an awful lot of leg for a Tusken?

 

Luke, partying.

 

They also took in Anakin Solo's friend, Tahiri, after her parents were killed.

As for the Anakin Skywalker nightmare, I just assumed it was a Tuskin skull.

 

heh.. what if the Tusken face from the dream isn't so much Anakin's dream view of a Tusken unwrapped but a subconscious premonition of his own fate -- horribly disfigured, living under a mask.

at any rate, the possibility that there are all-human Tusken tribes is quite possible.

 

Tusken tribal culture seems to be a fairly fluid concept.

Recall, if you will, that before the advent of AotC, all reference material stated that male and female members of any given tribe dressed exactly alike (not that I trust that Senior Anthropologist Hoole chap any further than I could throw him at maximum extension).

 

i was rather disappointed that AOTC undid the egalitarian culture of the Tuskens, where any adult with two hands could fight, where males and females could really only be identified by scent...

i'm still holding out that some Tusken tribes are like that (esp perhaps in Luke's time) and that the tribe that Anakin slaughtered with their gender roles and costumes was representative of only one version of tusken culture.

as you said.. fluid.

 

I don't think those rodent looking things on the left can be tuskens cause their is no way that they would look like Tuskens if you wrapped them in the tusken facial coverings, their heads are too big and long for them to be tuskens. Tuskens have to be at least similar to humans, zabrak, near humans, Fallen or several other species that have a very human like apperance. I don't think they could be rodentlike because a rodents face is generally longer and more pointed.

 

While I was quite pleased to see the rather improbable speculations of the early EU authors undone.

 

Didn't it say in the ANH novelization that the Tuskens were part mechanical?

 

Hear hear. I rather enjoyed the new Tusken female designs. Made them more Bedouin, more realistic. At the same time, there's nothing to say that ALL females dress that way. Perhaps females dress like males and fight alongside them until they become mothers? Whatev. No one's really established much.

 

I take the AOTC tuskens as just one tribe. There are many, some less sexist than others.

 

Realist, rather.

 

Yes, it's true the ability to wave sticks at one's enemies, make strange, loud noises and wear full length, potato-sack smocks is gender dependent.

 

Hm, most anicient cultutres seemd to think it was mind you. Except the Scythians, but the rest of us barbaric types dont mention them

 

Oversimplification, my dear girl.

Yeah, we killed them instead.

 

come to think of it the furry guy in the picture actually looks a bit like some of the chewie concept art they showed on the Characters of Star Wars feature on the dvd.

 

Dude, it's concept art -- don't worry about leg showing or rodent faces. It ain't canon.

 

I don't believe that's a typical Tusken face. In a purely physical sense it could be a Tusken, however, it seems to me that the organic half is just an organic version of the mask. Next, just above and to the right of the "Anakin!" bubble is what looks to be a familiar looking tattoo. That is part of why I think that it's a representation of A'Sharad Hett in Anakin's mind.

A'Sharad's revelation to Anakin that he was human didn't change Anakin's opinion of Tusken Raiders in the slightest. After revealing himself to be human, A'Sharad affirms his pride in his Tusken heritage, which likely causes Anakin to view A'Sharad as an abomination, resulting in the half-face shown in Anakin's dream.

Also consider the way that the image of Anakin's dream is split up. The bottom third seems to be devoted to Shmi's death with many masks of Tuskens in the dark. The right third has Qui-gon and Padme (perhaps hinting at Padme's death?) and the left third contains Obi-wan inside a Sith mask, an explosion, and the half-face. Why is this face/mask in a third other than the one devoted to Shmi's death? I feel that the left third represents how his apprenticeship changed with the transition between Obi-wan and A'Sharad marked by the explosion (the Battle of Jabiim).

But if the concept art is published in a book that is written from an in-universe perspective, is it not canon?

 

Shoot. I missed that part. Inconsistencies no longer easily dismissable. *Brain explodes*

 

I think I know what you are talking about with KoTOR. The Storyteller at the Tusken camp makes references to "the outsiders" (czerka corp ppl) as being like the ancient Tuskens...but if you ask whether the resemblance is physical or cultural it's taken as an insult and the Tuskens attack you.

 

I always thought the Tuskens were described as near Humans, with undertones suggesting they evolved from such.

 

Interesting. Got a source?

 

Tusken Raider RPG stats would indicate them not being a Near-Human species.

 

I always had a pet theory that Tuskens were actually the most beautiful race in the galaxy underneath the wrappings. I just loved the irony of the idea. I also think that the half-face from the Republic comic is supposed to represent more a ruined, mutilated face than true depiction of a Tusken Raider.

 

Maybe they're angels. Hehe.

I like the idea of Iego. Besides reference accounts and descriptions, is there any EU on that world? Stories that take place there, HoloNet articles, offhand references?