atlacuihuani (TK214v)
This painted example of iconography represents a jug or pitcher with a large handle (perhaps the atlacuihuani). This Nahuatl term is an educated guess here. It draws upon other examples of this type of vessel already in the digital collection and the Spanish-language gloss, “cántaro.” This vessel is given here as a tribute item. This manuscript was produced as part of the community’s resistance to the unreasonable taxation being demanded vis-a-vis the size of the community, especially as the population was declining as a result of diseases inadvertently brought over from Europe.
Stephanie Wood
If it is not an atlacuihuani, this pottery vessel could have other names, such as apilolli, tecomitl, and huicolli. They all have a similar shape and one large handle. The huicolli, however, being rarer and smaller, might not have been a piece of pottery in as much demand by Spanish overlords in the early years as the larger pieces.
Side Note: The folio numbers are not always clear in the copy published online by the British Museum. Marc Thouvenot gives this page the number K12_B in his TLACHIA digital collection, https://tlachia.iib.unam.mx/tepetlaoztoc/K12_B.
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cantaros y ollas
cántaros y ollas
Stephanie Wood
c. 1556
Jeff Haskett-Wood
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atlacuihuani, a ceramic pitcher for fetching water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atlacuihuani
el cántaro para traer agua
Stephanie Wood
The Codex Kingsborough, also known as the Códice de Tepetlaoztoc, and the Memorial de los indios de Tepetlaoztoc, is not on display. It was transferred from the British Library and is now held by the British Museum. It is shared on line at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am2006-Drg-13964
©The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Please also cite the <em>Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphsem>, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Projects, 2020-present) and this URL.
