colli (MH520r)

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black line drawing of the element representing the noun colli comes from the compound glyph, Tencol. A colli is a bent, twisted, or curled thing. Here, the curling thing rolls out from the left.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

col(li), bent, twisted, or curled thing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli-1

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 520r, World Digital Library.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=119&st=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).