cacaxtli (Mdz42r)
This iconographic example of a carrying frame (or packframe) for the human back with the tumpline that would go over the forehead is included here as a comparison for carrying frames that may appear in glyphs. The frame looks like a small wooden ladder. It is upright here. The tumpline appears to have a white rope with a woven reed band for the forehead.
Stephanie Wood
See the detailed study by Ian Mursell of the carrying frame published in Mexicolore.
Stephanie Wood
cacaxtle
cacaxtli
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
Stephanie Wood
estructura para llevar cosas en la espalda, transporte, carrying frames, cacax
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/cacaxtli42rcarryingframeICON.png?itok=hP8tOvpU)
cacax(tli), a packframe, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cacaxtli
Codex Mendoza, folio 42 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 94 of 188.
Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)