cuauhtli (MH484r)
This element has been carved from the compound glyph for the personal name Cozcacuauhtli. It is the head of an eagle (cuauhtli), drawn in black lines, in profile, facing to the viewer's right. It has a mostly white face, an open eye, a slightly open beak, and spiky black tufts of feathers surround the face.
Stephanie Wood
Of course, the noun cozcacuauhtli actually refers (often) to the vulture, not to the eagle. But the vulture was apparently seen as something like an eagle with a necklace. As explained in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary, the noun cozcacuauhtli also referred to other birds.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Xitlali Torres
águilas, buitres, eagles, vultures
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cuauhtli, eagle, hawk, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 484r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=47&st=image&r=-0.559,-....
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