huapalli (Azca26)
This black-line drawing of the iconographic example (unglossed) of a board (which we are calling a huapalli) shows it in a horizontal position, the right end cut on an angle. The right end also has a hole through it, where a rope has been inserted for pulling and dragging it, probably for the purpose of construction. The contextualizing image shows a brick wall and a digging stick, other signs, perhaps, of a construction project.
Stephanie Wood
Other huapalli glyphs do not always show the hole with the rope for pulling, but glyphs for huilana (to go along dragging) typically show beams or boards as the objects for dragging.
Stephanie Wood
post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.
Jeff Haskett-Wood
tablas, tablones, vigas, madera, jalar, cuerdas, cordones
huapal(li), plank, board, small beam, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huapalli
The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=26&st=image
The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
