encomendero (Osu34v)

This painted simplex Nahuatl hieroglyph represents a Spanish overlord called an encomendero, which is a word taken into Nahuatl. The gloss refers to just "one" encomendero who presided over this town, extracting tributes in kind, perhaps in coin, and in labor. The grant he held would have been called an encomienda. This is a bearded Spanish male who wears a brown hat and cape. A white collar emerges around the neck from under the cape. The beard is brown, but the man appears to have gray hair, just barely visible behind his ear. His shoulders and chest are nearly in a frontal view, but his head is turned to the viewer's right in a profile view.