Cozcatetl (MH826r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cozcatetl (“Bead Necklace” or “Necklace Beads”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a necklace (cozcatl) with a horizontal string of three beads (tetl). The ends of the cord are loose and not really long enough to tie the necklace on a human neck. But the suggestion of a necklace is there.
Stephanie Wood
As shown in some of the glyphs involving necklaces below, they are beads most often, but they can also be strings with corn cobs, shells, bells, a pendant ring, or even a piece of wood to hold onto or tie up an enslaved person.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
These beads are located in the Regional Museum of Guadalajara. The strings are not the originals. Presumably these strands represent chalchihuitl (green) and xihuitl (turquoise), but the distinction between blue and green is not always hard and fast. (Photo by Stephanie Wood, 4 February 2025.)

cozca(tl), necklace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcatl-0
te(tl), stone, egg, gem, counter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
Collar de Cuentas
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 826r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=726&st=image.
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