Huexotzinco
This compound glyph for the place name Huexotzinco doubles as the ethnic name, Huexotzincatl (as shown in the gloss image). The glyph includes two elements, a tree known as a white willow (huexotl) and a buttocks or bottom [tzintli used here to provide the phonetic value for the locative suffix (-tzinco), place. The tree is a two-tone green. It has a leader and two side branches. The bottom is of a male (with the white waist band of the loincloth visible), the skin tone is a terracotta, and the lower half of the body is in a profile view with the man facing to the viewer's right. The head of a man (not shown here but attached to the place name on folio 42 recto) has short hair just below his ears, bangs, a headband, and a curved labret covering his chin, which Berdan and Anawalt say are all features typical of men from this town.
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This huexotl compares favorably and differs from others in the Codex Mendoza, as can be seen below, right. Huexotzinco (or Huejotzingo today) is located in the contemporary state of Puebla.
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huexotzincatl
Huexotzincatl
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by 1553 at the latest
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trees, árboles, rear end, nalgas
huexo(tl), white willow tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huexotl
tzin(tli), buttocks, bottom, rear end, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzintli
-tzinco (locative suffix), little, lower, or new, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzinco
"New Huexotlah" [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]
"On the Small Willow Tree" (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. 188)
Codex Mendoza, folio 42 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english
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).
