cuauhtotolin (FCbk11f28r)

cuauhtotolin (FCbk11f28r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a wild turkey (cuauhtotolin), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the keywords chosen by the team behind the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss. This example shows a profile of a standing turkey, facing the viewer’s right. Its left leg is raised, as though it is walking. The bird is mostly black, but with areas of gray and white. It has a fan tail. On the top of its head, the artist has put some red coloring.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This is the first cuauhtotolin to enter this digital collection, but turkeys are prevalent. The simple term totolin is the most common name in the collection, and this may refer to a hen more than a cock. Huexolotl is a distant second. Sometimes the whole bird is shown, and often just the head. See some examples below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

Quauhtotoli

Gloss/Text Normalization:

cuauhtotolin

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Birds

Movement

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

guajolotes, pavo, pavos, silvestre, silvestres, salvaje, salvajes, gallina, gallinas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauhtotol(in), wild turkey, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtotolin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el guajolote norteño

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol.28r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/28r/images/0 Accessed 16 October 2025.

Image Source, Rights:

Images of the digitized Florentine Codex are made available under the following Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International). For print-publication quality photos, please contact the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ([email protected]). The Library of Congress has also published this manuscript, using the images of the World Digital Library copy. “The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection. Absent any such restrictions, these materials are free to use and reuse.”

Orthography:

"q" for c

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: