VISUAL ACTIVITYMission Carmel This eighteenth-century drawing portrays a reception for a Spanish visitor at Mission Carmel in what is now Carmel, California. Lines of mission Indians flank the entrance to the chapel where a priest and his assistants await the visitor.READING THE IMAGE: How does the reception ritual illustrate the relations among Indians, missionaries, and Spanish officials?CONNECTIONS: How did policies toward Indians in Spanish North American colonies differ from those in eighteenth-century English colonies?

The Granger Collection, New York.