Achcauhtli (MH640v)
Achcauhtli (MH640v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or birth-order label, Achcauhtli ("Older Brother" or "Person of Authority," attested here as a man's name), shows a profile view of a man's head looking toward the viewer's right. He has long hair pulled back, wrapped with perhaps a white leather thong or cloth, which is tied. The gloss actually gives Achcahuitli, which could be either an error or a the spelling of a variant.
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Hair length is significant in Nahua culture. It can mark an ethnic group or an occupational group (such as priests), for example. For more information on hair length, see Justyna Olko, Insignias of Rank in the Nahua World (2014), 35. Also, see other examples of long hair, below.
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pedro achcavitli.
Pedro Achcahuitli (or Achcauhtli)
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1560
familia, hermanos, nombres de hombres, peinado, tzontli, atado, autoridades, nombres de hombres
achcauh(tli), older brother or person of authority, such as warrior leader, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/achcauhtli
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 640v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=363st=image.
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