Cuicamaxochitl (MH517v)
This simplex glyph for the personal name Cuicamaxochitl (here, attested as male) shows a hand [ma(itl)] holding a flower (xochitl) fan that was apparently used while singing (cuica)) and dancing. The hand is painted a flesh tone. and the fan (shown in a frontal view but slightly cut off because the page is eroded) has some red coloring (really a pinkish or purple, but probably intending red). The flowers on the fan are arranged in concentric circles, emanating out for the center. It is the central circle that has the red coloring. A probably wooden stick runs partly up the middle of the fan, and the hand grabs onto this stick. The song (Cuica-) part of the name is not shown visually, but perhaps this fan was held while singing and dancing.
Stephanie Wood
This fan may or may not be the ehecacehuaztli fan that the divine force of the wind carries in the Tonalamatl de los Pochtecas, a codex of Mixteca-Puebla origin (formerly called the Codex Fejervary-Mayer). See Mexicolore for a reproduction of the indicated page. If this fan is not the same, it has a similar construction and shape.
Fans with a circular shape mounted on a stick could also be made of feathers. The famous fan in the Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, is one such beauty. Red is the color of the central ring on this fan, too.
Stephanie Wood
Juao cuicamaxochitl
Juan Cuicamaxochitl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

cuica, to sing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuica
maxochi(tl), hand-held flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maxochitl
Canción-Albanico de Flores
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 517v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=114&st=image
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