cozolli (Azca28)
This painted black-line drawing of an example of (unglossed) iconography shows a baby's cradle, which we are labeling cozolli (sometimes also spelled conzolli). The cradle appears to be made of wood. It seems to be an open box with hoops over the baby that is lying inside the box. A smaller hoop protects the baby’s feet. Two larger hoops (painted red) protect the baby's head. There is also a board that comes up near the baby’s head. The box has six vertical rows of black dots that have the appearance of being some kind of bolts that hold the wood together.
Stephanie Wood
Compare this cradle with one from the Codex Mendoza, below. They have a similar construction, and a similar artist's rendering.
Stephanie Wood
post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.
Jeff Haskett-Wood
bebes, criaturas, cunas
cozol(li), cradle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozolli
la cuna
Stephanie Wood
The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=28&st=image
The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
