huexotl (Mdz2r)

huexotl (Mdz2r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element has been carved from the compound personal name "Ahuexotl" (as shown in the gloss). It is a white willow tree (huexotl). It has a leader and two branches. The bark is a light brown in color. There are 18 somewhat small, light green leaves.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This example of the huexotl tree is much like another one in our collection, as seen on the Codex Mendoza folio 42 recto. It differs from the example on folio 26 recto, which is a more visually generic tree.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Plants, Flora
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
brown
green (light)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
tripartite
Keywords: 

trees, árboles

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

huexo(tl), white willow tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huexotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el sauce blanco

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 2 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

See Also: 

huexotl (Mdz26r)

huexotl (Mdz42r)