huitztli (Mdz39r)

huitztli (Mdz39r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

For huitztli (39r), here is a Glyph description: This element for a thorn or spine (huitztli) has been carved from the compound glyph for the place name Huitzamolla.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The huitztli probably comes from the tip of a maguey leaf. It looks much other spines or thorns in the Codex Mendoza. Because these spines were used for self-sacrificial blood-letting, the red color may suggest blood.

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 47 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english

Source Manuscript: 
Tepechpan, Tira de (TT)
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: 
Blood (human/animal/plant)
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Religion (Indigenous)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
red
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiky
spiny
triangular
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

espina, spine, thorn, sangre, blood

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

huitz(tli), thorn, spine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 39 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 88 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)

See Also: 

huitztli (Mdz13v)

huitztli (Mdz19r)