cihuatl (MH609r)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This is a black-line drawing of a simplex glyph for the noun cihuatl ("woman"). It doubles as the simplex glyph for the male personal name Pactoc ("Happy and Healthy").
Description, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Source Manuscript:
Date of Manuscript:
1560
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Writing Features:
Cultural Content & Iconography:
Cultural Content, Credit:
Jeff Haskett-Wood
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Keywords:
women, mujeres, feliz, en buena salud
Glyph or Iconographic Image:
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
Image Source:
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 609r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=300st=image.
Image Source, Rights:
This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).
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