Coxoli (MH579v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Coxoli (“Pheasant,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of what appears to be a feather fan. If the translation is correct, then the feathers come from a pheasant or the fan of feathers was perceived to resemble a pheasant. The fan shows part of a handle and, above that, a triangular, segmented shape or a shape with a checkered pattern, and, at the top, three apparent feathers.
Stephanie Wood
paltasal. coxolli
Baltazar Coxoli
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
rituals, rituales, dances, bailes, feathers, plumas, fans, abanicos emplumados, faisanes
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coxoli(tli), pheasant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coxolitli
El Faisán, o el Abanico de Plumas de Faisán
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 579v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=238&st=image
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