cozcatl (MH485v)
This black-line drawing of the element for necklace (cozcatl) has been carved from the compound personal name Cozcacuauh. It is a curving string of round beads, loose at the ends.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Xitlali Torres
necklaces, collares, beads, sarta de cuentas
For comparison, this detail of a necklace from the Florentine Codex (Book 8, f. 50v) shows a cozcatl with a red cord (perhaps a leather thong?) with alternating blue and green stones. See the Digital Florentine Codex (Getty Research Institute), https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/8/folio/50v/images/aeabee3d-1ce7-....

cozcatl, necklace, jewel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcatl-0.
El collar
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 484v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&st=image.
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).