ACAPSDocument 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 16th 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 Secoto
n” by English artist John White,
1585-1586.
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, 1585-1586.
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 16th 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 16th century.
Source: An image from the Florentine Codex created by native artists under direction
of a Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16th century.
Source: English artist John White
portraying Native Americans from an
Atlantic Seaboard tribe, 1585-1586.
Source: Paintings by Mexican
artist Andrés de Islas, 18th century.
↑ ‘mestizo’ child ↑ ‘castizo’ child
‘coyote’ child → ← ‘chino’ child
Source: A banner carried by Spanish troops led by Cortes, 16th century.
Source: Engraving by Dutch Protestant Theodor de Bry depicting the Spanish and
Indians in Cuzco (present-day Peru) in 1532.
