amantecatl (MH778v)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the occupation amantecatl (artisan and often, as here perhaps, a feather worker) shows a frontal view of three vertical feathers. They are red in the upper half.
Description, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:
amatecatl
Gloss Normalization:
amantecatl
Gloss Analysis, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Source Manuscript:
Date of Manuscript:
1560
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Cultural Content & Iconography:
Cultural Content, Credit:
Jeff Haskett-Wood
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Keywords:
artesano, plumero, plumas, feathers, rojo, oficios, hombres
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Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
amanteca(tl), a feather worker, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amantecatl
Image Source:
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 778v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=631&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).
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