Cuauhihuitl (MH503r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuauhihuitl ("Eagle Feathers," attested here as a man’s name) shows two eagle feathers criss-crossed, forming an X shape. The feathers have numerous down barbs, and the vanes have black-and-white patterning or segmentation.
Stephanie Wood
gaspar
guahuihuitl
Gaspar Cuauhihuitl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
eagles, águilas, feathers, plumas
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cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
ihui(tl), feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl
Águila-Plumas
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 503r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=83&st=image
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