Cozcayec (MH885v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cozcayec (“Good Necklace”) is attested here as a woman’s name. The glyph shows a horizontal necklace with three beads on a twisted cord. If this is a special necklace, the beads may be greenstone (jade or jadeite). Nothing obviously represents the -yec suffix (from yectli, something good) on the name.
Stephanie Wood
See other examples of necklaces below. Necklaces (cozcatl) could be made of many different objects, such as shells, beads of various kinds (including greenstone and turquoise), golden bells, carved wood, maize flowers, and corn cobs. Eagle heads combined with necklaces are not literally about jewelry, but provide the phonetic elements for the bird called the cozcacuauhtli, the king vulture.
Stephanie Wood
juana cozcayec
Juana Cozcayec
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
collares, cuentas, cuerdas, nombres de mujeres

cozca(tl), necklace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcatl
yec(tli), good, pure, clean, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yectli
Collar Bueno
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 885v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=843&st=image.
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