Title: ACAPS Document Analysis
1ACAPSDocument Analysis
- Author
- Point of View
- Context
- When and where was it created and how might this
affect the meaning - Audience
- Purpose
- Significance
2Example 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.
3Source The Village of Secoton by English
artist John White, 1585-1586.
4Source Map of the Aztec capital Tenotchtitlan
published with a collection of letters from
Hernan Cortes in 1524.
5Source A modern aerial photograph of the ruins
of Pueblo Bonita in Chaco Canyon in present-day
New Mexico.
6Source English artist John White portraying ten
male and seven female Native Americans from an
Atlantic Seaboard tribe, 1585-1586.
7Source Depiction of Spanish and Native
Americans, 1621.
8Source Map of Native American ways of life,
ca.1500.
9Source Engraving by Theodor de Bry based on a
16th century painting of Florida Indians by
French colonist Jacques Le Moyne .
10Source An engraving of an Iroquois longhouse by
a French Jesuit, seventeenth-century.
11Source Columbuss Landfall, a Spanish engraving
from a pamphlet, 1493.
12Source An image from the Florentine Codex
created by native artists under direction of a
Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16th century.
13Source An image from the Florentine Codex
created by native artists under direction of a
Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16th century.
14Source English artist John White portraying
Native Americans from an Atlantic Seaboard tribe,
1585-1586.
15Source Paintings by Mexican artist Andrés de
Islas, 18th century.
? mestizo child
? castizo child
coyote child ?
? chino child
16Source A banner carried by Spanish troops led
by Cortes, 16th century.
17Source Engraving by Dutch Protestant Theodor de
Bry depicting the Spanish and Indians in Cuzco
(present-day Peru) in 1532.