cacaxtli (FCbk9f26v)

cacaxtli (FCbk9f26v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a carrying frame (cacaxtli), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making potential comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the keywords chosen by the team behind the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This example shows how the frame could stand independently, off of the person’s back. See other examples of such frames below. This concept even appears as a personal name (abbreviated as Cacax).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

noun(s)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Transportation, Travel, Roads

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

orange/terracotta

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

profile view

three-dimensionality

woven

Keywords:

marcos, sogas, cargas, transporte, tump, madera, transporte, transportador, estructura para llevar cosas en la espalda a cuestas, tameme, tamemes

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cacax(tli), a carrying frame for use on the back and with a tump line, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cacaxtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el cacaxtle, o el cargadero

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 9: The Merchants", fol. 26v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/9/folio/26v/images/0 Accessed 29 August 2025.

Image Source, Rights:

Images of the digitized Florentine Codex are made available under the following Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International). For print-publication quality photos, please contact the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ([email protected]). The Library of Congress has also published this manuscript, using the images of the World Digital Library copy. “The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection. Absent any such restrictions, these materials are free to use and reuse.”

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