cuauhtli iztac (MH483r)

cuauhtli iztac (MH483r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element represents a white eagle (cuauhtli iztac). It is a black line drawing showing only the eagle's head in profile, looking to the viewer's right. Its eye is open, as is its beak. It has darker feather tufts around the perimeter of its head, but the face is mostly white.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

While the context image shows that the name Cuauhtliztac or Cuauhtli Iztac includes not just the white eagle head but also speech scrolls, we have removed the speech scrolls here, atomizing the glyph. If the speech scroll is an integral part of the meaning of Eagle-White, at least it is there in the context image.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Color names
Mouth/Beak Open
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

cuauhtli, eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
iztac, white, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iztac

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el águila blanco

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&st=image.

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Historical Contextualizing Image: