chichi (FCbk11f16v)

chichi (FCbk11f16v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a dog (chichi), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a standing dog in profile, facing the viewer’s right. Its coat is shaggy, and it is painted a turquoise blue. Its tail is raised up and curving over at the tip.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This collection has only two examples of dogs that are labeled chichi (as of October 2025). The one from the Codex Mendoza, which is shown as a full body, is white with black spots. The one from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco is only a head with no information about its coat.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Chichi

Gloss Normalization:

chichi

Gloss 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)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Misc.

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

blue (turquoise)

brown

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

perros, itzcuintli, chichis, animales

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chichi, dog, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chichi

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el perro

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 11: Earthly Things", fol. 16v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/16v/images/0 Accessed 7 October 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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