Chichimecatl (cihuatl) (FCbk10f121v)

This iconographic example, featuring a Chichimec woman (Chichimecatl, cihuatl), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the Nahuatl text on the page preceding the page with the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a ¾ view of a woman walking (movement) toward the right. She has long hair. She wears a short blouse with a black border along the bottom. This blouse is triangular, pointing downward in the front-middle, above her bare midriff. This is a blouse called a quechquemitl). She also wears a white cotton skirt (cueitl) with a couple of rolls at the top. Her clothing has some shading, which gives it a three-dimensionality, a European artistic tradition. She walks through a landscape, which is also something learned by the tlacuilos who studied with the colonizers. This woman has a baby in a woven container that is tied to her back. In the woman’s right hand is a rabbit, and in her left she has another, unidentifiable object. The contextualizing image shows a Chichimec man in her company. Perhaps he hunted the rabbit and gave it to her for food.