cozotl (Mdz20r)

cozotl (Mdz20r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element showing four yellow parrot (cozotl) feathers has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Cozotlan. The four feathers are grouped and standing up, vertically. At their base, they are white.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Color names
Feathers
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
symmetry
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

feathers, parrots, yellow, amarillo, plumas, loros, pericos

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

cozo(tl), yellow parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozotl

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 20 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 50 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: 

Cozotlan (Mdz20r)

Cozohuipilecan (Mdz13r)

Cozohuipilecan (Mdz38r)

cozohuipilli (Mdz49r)