citli (FCbk10f4r)

This iconographic example, featuring a grandmother (citli or teci), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The terms selected for this example comes from the text on the same page as the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows an older woman in the classic mature woman’s hairstyle (neaxtlahualli or axtlacuilli), with the long hair twisted around and upward, ending in two points above the forehead. She also wears a blouse/tunic (huipilli) with the rectangle at the base of the V-neck along with a horizontal cord above the triangle. She seeming has a petticoat with legs (what Spaniards called naguas) on under the huipilli. The distinguishing feature that sets her apart from an generic adult woman (cihuatl) is her white hair.