huipilli (FCbk6f170v)

huipilli (FCbk6f170v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring an Indigenous woman’s handmade blouse (huipilli) is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making potential comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the keywords chosen by the team behind the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss. This example shows a small, rectangular, sleeveless, handmade blouse (huipilli) with a V-neck, a patch over the chest, and horizontal stripes along the bottom. The patch on the chest has some fibers along the top that also hand down along the left side (from the viewer’s point of view) of the rectangle. This was one of five items that were given to a baby girl at the time of her baptism, according to the companion text.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Below are some hieroglyphs that include huipiles (the Hispanized version of huipilli). The added fibers across the top of the rectangle on the chest (called a pechero in Spanish and possibly tlapepecholli, a term in use in the Sierra Norte de Puebla according to Tomás Amando Amaya, personal communication, 6 July 2025) do not appear in the additional examples below, but they can be found elsewhere in the Florentine Codex.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (female)

Religion (Indigenous Christianity)

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

striped

Keywords:

textiles, blusas, huipiles, textiles, diseño, diseños

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huipil(li), an indigenous woman’s rectangular blouse or shift, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huipilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el huipil

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 6: Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy", fol. 170v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/6/folio/170v/images/0. Accessed 7 July 2025.

Image Source, Rights:

Images of the digitized Florentine Codex are made available under the following Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International). For print-publication quality photos, please contact the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ([email protected]). The Library of Congress has also published this manuscript, using the images of the World Digital Library copy. “The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection. Absent any such restrictions, these materials are free to use and reuse.”

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