Cozohuipilecan (Mdz38r)

Cozohuipilecan (Mdz38r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

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 shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

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 several are made of yellow feathers with a red trim at the neck.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

coçohuipilecā. puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Cozohuipilecan, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
locative (not visual)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Feathers
Gender (less obviously marked)
Music, Song, Dance
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
tan
yellow or golden
Keywords: 

garments, tunics, prendas, trajes de guerreros, feathers, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

cozo(tl), a yellow parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozotl
huipil(li), a blouse or tunic, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huipilli
-can (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 38 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 86 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

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).

See Also: 

Cozohuipilecan (Mdz13r)