Achcauhtli (MH692r)
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, and tied with perhaps a white leather thong or cloth.
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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. Gender also seems to be significant. See other examples of long hair, below.
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juā achcauhtli
Juan Achcauhtli
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1560
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familia, hermanos, 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
Hermano Mayor, o Persona de Autoridad
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 692r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=464&st=image.
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