ACAPS Document Analysis Author Point of View Context When and where was it created and how might this affect the meaning Audience Purpose Significance
Source: Theodor de Bry “The New Queen”, an engraving by made from a 16 th c drawing by Jacque le Moyne, a French colonist in Florida. In terms of politics: This tribe shows a matriarchy or matriarchal tendencies allowing females power. This Indian queen is revered and rules over this tribe. Warfare. In terms of society: This image shows hierarchy. Socially this women has higher status than other women. It also shows matriarchy in that she is a powerful woman. Example of an Image and ACAPS analysis Who is this?
Source: “The Village of Secoton” by English artist John White,
Source: Map of the Aztec capital Tenotchtitlan published with a collection of letters from Hernan Cortes in 1524.
Source: A modern aerial photograph of the ruins of Pueblo Bonita in Chaco Canyon in present-day New Mexico.
Source: English artist John White portraying ten male and seven female Native Americans from an Atlantic Seaboard tribe,
Source: Depiction of Spanish and Native Americans, 1621.
Source: Map of Native American ways of life, ca.1500.
Source: Engraving by Theodor de Bry based on a 16 th century painting of Florida Indians by French colonist Jacques Le Moyne.
Source: An engraving of an Iroquois longhouse by a French Jesuit, seventeenth-century.
Source: Columbus’s Landfall, a Spanish engraving from a pamphlet, 1493.
Source: An image from the Florentine Codex created by native artists under direction of a Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16 th century.
Source: English artist John White portraying Native Americans from an Atlantic Seaboard tribe,
Source: Paintings by Mexican artist Andrés de Islas, 18 th century. ↑ ‘mestizo’ child↑ ‘castizo’ child ‘coyote’ child → ← ‘chino’ child
Source: A banner carried by Spanish troops led by Cortes, 16 th century.
Source: Engraving by Dutch Protestant Theodor de Bry depicting the Spanish and Indians in Cuzco (present-day Peru) in 1532.