Cuitlapantzon (MH747r)
This black-line drawing of the compound personal name for Cuitlapantzon (perhaps “Hairy Back”) shows a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. He is nearly naked, but a white belt from a loincloth is visible. Coming up his back (cuitlapantzontli) from his bottom are many straight, black lines, suggestive of hair (tzontli). But it also comes out from his buttocks, in a way reminiscent of excrement (cuitlatl). Thus, this compound is both logographic and phonographic.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
pelo, espalda, taparrabos, excremento nombres de hombres
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cuitlapantzon(tli), hair, or the backbone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuitlapantzontli
Espalda Peluda (?)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 747r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=572&st=image
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