ihuiamanteca (MH642v)
This compound glyph for the occupation of feather worker (here, in the plural,
ihuiamanteca) shows an agricultural tool (huictli) on the left, playing a semantic role for work (tequitl), which also has a phonetic role, providing the “tec” in ihuiamanteca. On the right is a feather device that would be a product that the feather workers would create. It is a group of feathers wrapped in something red, which is bound with perhaps a natural leather tie. Three feathers emerge from the wrapping.
Stephanie Wood
yuiamāteca
ihuiamanteca
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
plumas, trabajadores de plumas, oficios
ihu(itl), feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl
amanteca(tl), an artisan, or a featherworker,
https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amantecatl
trabajadores de plumas
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 642v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=367&st=image
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