What Jawas looks like under the hood

Ever wondered what those darn dirty Jawas look like under their hood? While our natural understanding that the Tusken Raiders/Sand People look like humans due to their humanoid physique, them Jawas are small-ish in stature and look like children, or so we thought. For the record, both Jawas and Tusken Raiders are said to have come from the same family although I can't really fathom one becoming the other at some point.As for the Tuskens, apart from the movies, we've seen plenty of them in the comic medium, Dark Horse and later Marvel Comics. I remember that Tusken Jedi story arc where a human took up the Tusken headgear and garb while retaining his lightsaber weapon whilst living with a Tusken tribe on Tatooine. A'sharad Hett was his name and I think I'll revisit that comic sometime again soon now that the second Episode of The Book of Boba Fett has just made them desert nomads uber cool again.

Talking about Jawas. I've been uncertain about their collective noun. I've always though that they were called Jawa no matter what number they come marching in. You know, one noun to describe them all. Apparently they are indeed called Jawas in plural form. So ok, that's forty years of misinformation since corrected!

Anyway, going back to the Tuskens' cousins, wonder no more of how the Jawas look like because Screenrant.com recently reminded us that we've been told not once, but TWICE of how the Jawas look like before. Just take a gander at the comparison pics below....

On the left is the Ralph McQuarrie's interpretation of the Jawas. These must have came from his sketch books which you may purchase through Amazon and other book stores at your fancy. They pretty much look like humans who wear helmets and goggles underneath their hood. I take it that the glowing yellow eyes must have came from their lighted-up goggles.

The second version comes from the A New Hope novel by Alan Dean Foster. The writer described, albeit sans illustrations, the Jawas as a rodent-like creature with scrawny bodies. That graphic on the right is actually from a stripped down Jawa action figure, can't really recall at what scale, but you get a general idea of how creepy Foster's interpretation was/is.

Now you know.