cintli (MH618v)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This black-line drawing of a dried corn cob cintli doubles as the simplex glyph for the name Tequicen (see below). The husk is gone from the cob, which sits upright with visible kernels.
Description, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Source Manuscript:
Date of Manuscript:
1560
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Cultural Content & Iconography:
Cultural Content, Credit:
Jeff Haskett-Wood
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Keywords:
maíz seca, mazorca seca
Glyph or Iconographic Image:
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
cin(tli), dried corn on the cob, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cintli
cen(tli), dried corn on the cob, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centli-0
Image Source:
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 618v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=319st=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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