Cacama (MH526r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cacama (“Small Ear of Corn,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a maize plant that has two small ears of corn (cacamatl) growing on the left side of the stock. The plant also has two leaves and a tassel. Despite the translation of the term cacamatl, these cobs do not appear to be especially small.
Stephanie Wood
pedro.cacama.
Pedro Cacama
Stephanie Wood
1560
cobs, maize, corn, maíz, ears
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cacama(tl), small cobs of corn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cacamatl
Mazorca Pequeña
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 526r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=131&st=image.
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