cuechtli (MH607v)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This is a black-line drawing of the glyphic element cuechtli (shell) has been extracted from the compound glyph, Coacuechtli.
Description, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
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Date of Manuscript:
1560
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Cultural Content, Credit:
Jeff Haskett-Wood
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Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
cuech(tli), a long shell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuechtli
Image Source:
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 607v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=297st=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).
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