huexotl (Mdz42r)

huexotl (Mdz42r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for huexotl) (the white willow) has been carved from the ethnic label "Huexotzincatl" (as attested by the gloss below). The tree has a leader and two branches. Its bark and 15 leaves are largely the same color of green, although perhaps there is a two-tone green effect intended.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This white willow is very much like another one in this collection that appears in the Codex Mendoza on folio 2 recto, and very different from the one on folio 26 recto. See below, right. The one on 26 recto is more visually generic.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Plants, Flora
Colors: 
green (dark)
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 42 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 94 of 188.

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 (Mdz2r)

huexotl (Mdz26r)

Huexotzincatl (Mdz42r)