acatl (MH486r)

acatl (MH486r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the element acatl has been extracted from the compound Matlalaca (see below). It is a vertical, segmented reed or cane with two small leaves on the right side and one on the left.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Acatl was both a day name in the tonalpohualli (260-day religious divinatory calendar) and a year name in the xiuhpohualli (year-count calendar).

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
year name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Plants, Flora
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
linear or multiple straight lines
segmented
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

reeds, cañas, plantas

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

aca(tl), reed/cane, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la caña

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=51&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

See Also: 

Matlalaca (MH486r)

acatl (Mdz42r)

acatl (Mdz2v)

acatl (Mdz23r)

acatl (Mdz20r)