ihuinamacac (FCbk10f44r)

This iconographic example, featuring a feather seller (ihuinamacac, or ihuihnamacac, with the glottal stop), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a man in a ¾ view, facing right, dressed in what appears to be a cloak (tilmatli) and perhaps trousers, and seated on a short, woven seat (icpalli). He looks toward the wares he is selling, one vertical green feather (perhaps a quetzalli) and five, red, down feather balls (tlachcayotl) resting on the grass. While this is a small sample, the corresponding Nahuatl text describes quite a large range of colors and sizes of feathers that a feather seller would be offering. Beyond the feathers is a woven reed box (petlacalli) with a lid. Such a box was a place to keep feathers.