Cuapanoc (MH780r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name and/or ethnicity, Cuextecatl (“Huaxtecan or Huastecan Person,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of the partial head of a person (not the tribute payer himself) looking toward the viewer's right. There is just a suggestion of hair on the head, standing straight up, and the visible eye is open, but the focus is on the nose, which has a plug or a ring, some kind of ornamentation that would be typical of the Huaxtec region. His front teeth are also notably visible.
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In the Florentine Codex, it is said that the people of the Huasteca had their "noses pierced like jug handles." [See: the Digital Florentine Codex, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/8/folio/30r.]
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peo. cuextecatl
Pedro Cuextecatl
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1560
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etnicidades, dientes, pelo, nombres de hombres
Persona de la Huasteca
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 780r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=634&st=image.
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