madonna with the yarnwinder painting

Both races affected tight clothing to shield them from Tatooine's twin dose ofsolar radiation, but there most comparisons ended. Instead of heavy woven cloakslike the jawas wore, the sandpeople wrapped themselves mummy-like in endlessswathing and bandages and loose bits of cloth. Where the jawas feared everything, a Tusken Raider feared little. Thesandpeople were larger, stronger, and far more aggressive. Fortunately for thehuman colonists of Tatooine, they were not very numerous and elected to pursue theirnomadic existence in some of Tatooine's most desolate regions. Contact betweenhuman and Tusken, therefore, was infrequent and uneasy, and they murdered no morethan a handful of human per year. Since the human population had claimed its shareof Tuskens, not always with reason, a peace of a sort existed between the two—aslong as neither side gained an advantage. One of the pair felt that that unstable condition had temporarily shifted in hisfavor, and he was about to take full advantage of it as he raised his rifle toward thelandspeeder. But his companion grabbed the weapon and shoved down on it beforeit could be fired. This set off a violent argument between the two. And, as theytraded vociferous opinions in a language consisting mostly of consonants, thelandspeeder sped on its way.