cozcatl (MH484r)
This element for necklace (cozcatl) has been carved from the compound sign for the personal name, Cozacuauhtli. It appears to be a leather thong with three beads. The entire necklace is not visible. From the historical contextual image, one can see that the necklace was presented as though going around the head of an eagle.
Stephanie Wood
The noun cozcacuauhtli, from which this necklace derives, refers not really to an eagle but to a vulture, as found in the calendar.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood
cozcatl, necklace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcatl-0
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 484r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=47&st=image&r=-0.559,-...
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