Cuaoton (MH553r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuaoton (“Head of an Otomí,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view (looking right) of the head of a man with face paint or tattooing involving intersecting vertical and horizontal lines at right angles. The hair on his head is shaggy, and he may be wearing a horizontal head band.
Stephanie Wood
1560
José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood
heads, cabezas, otomies, otomites, otomíes, ethnicities, etnicidades
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/CuaotonMH553rCmpndPersName.png?itok=SG6jWAnj)
cua-, head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua-2
Otomi(tl), a culture group, ethnicity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/otomitl
La Cabeza del Otomí
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 533r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=185&st=image
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