ACAPS Document Analysis

1. ACAPSDocument Analysis • Author • Point of View • Context • When and where was it created and how might this affect the meaning • Audience • Purpose • Significance

2. Example of an Image and ACAPS analysis Source: Theodor de Bry “The New Queen”, an engraving by made from a 16th c drawing by Jacque le Moyne, a French colonist in Florida. Who is this? 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.

3. Source: “The Village of Secoton” by English artist John White, 1585-1586.

4. Source: Map of the Aztec capital Tenotchtitlan published with a collection of letters from Hernan Cortes in 1524.

5. Source: A modern aerial photograph of the ruins of Pueblo Bonita in Chaco Canyon in present-day New Mexico.

6. Source: English artist John White portraying ten male and seven female Native Americans from an Atlantic Seaboard tribe, 1585-1586.

7. Source: Depiction of Spanish and Native Americans, 1621.

8. Source: Map of Native American ways of life, ca.1500.

9. Source: Engraving by Theodor de Bry based on a 16th century painting of Florida Indians by French colonist Jacques Le Moyne .

10. Source: An engraving of an Iroquois longhouse by a French Jesuit, seventeenth-century.

11. Source: Columbus’s Landfall, a Spanish engraving from a pamphlet, 1493.

12. Source: An image from the Florentine Codex created by native artists under direction of a Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16th century.

13. Source: An image from the Florentine Codex created by native artists under direction of a Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16th century.

14. Source: English artist John White portraying Native Americans from an Atlantic Seaboard tribe, 1585-1586.

15. Source: Paintings by Mexican artist Andrés de Islas, 18th century. ↑ ‘mestizo’ child ↑ ‘castizo’ child ‘coyote’ child → ← ‘chino’ child

16. Source: A banner carried by Spanish troops led by Cortes, 16th century.

17. Source: Engraving by Dutch Protestant Theodor de Bry depicting the Spanish and Indians in Cuzco (present-day Peru) in 1532.