Cozohuipilecan (Mdz13r)
This glyph could be considered either a compound or a simplex. The cozohuipilli was a tunic (huipilli) decorated with yellow parrot (cozotl) feathers, and here it stands alone for the place name, Cozohuipilecan. There is a possessor suffix (-e-) imbedded in this name that is not unequivocally represented visually. The locative suffix -can is definitely not show visually. The garment is primarily yellow, but it has red trim around the neck and a red horizontal stripe across the long feathers that hang over what would be the lower abdomen and upper thighs. Compared to the other example of the cozohuipilli in the Codex Mendoza, this one has less feather texturing in the part covering the upper body.
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The huipilli is commonly considered a woman's garment, but here it would appear to be a warrior's costume, and therefore probably worn by a man. This tunic is somewhat different from the other example of a cozohuipilli in this collection (see below, right). The Codex Mendoza includes many warriors' garments as tribute items (beginning about folio 36 recto and forward), and they are made of yellow feathers with a red trim at the neck.
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coçohuipilecan puo
Cozohuipilecan, pueblo
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c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
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feathers, plumas
cozo(tl), yellow parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozotl
huipil(li), tunic, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huipilli
-can, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2
Codex Mendoza, folio 13 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 36 of 188.
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).