cuahuitl (Mdz5v)

cuahuitl (Mdz5v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for cuahuitl (tree) has been carved from the compound glyph for the place name Cuauhtitlan. It is a standard, upright tree with a terracotta-colored trunk, a leader and two side branches (all with two-tone green foliage), and exposed, red, curling roots.

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

Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Plants, Flora
Colors: 
green (dark)
green (light)
orange/terracotta
red
Shapes and Perspectives: 
roots are visible
tripartite
vertical, upright
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

cuahu(itl), tree(s), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl-1

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

tree

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 05 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 21 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: 

Cuauhtitlan (Mdz5v)