ihuiteteyo (Mdz65r)

ihuiteteyo (Mdz65r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This example of iconography is included here for comparative purposes when examining war shields and/or feathers, especially the down feathers. This shield is round and colored primarily yellow, with eight white down feathers and a white rim around the circle.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The down balls in this design had an association with death. The design appears on the shield of Chimalpopoca, and therefore has a strong association, too, with Tenochtitlan. See our entry, below, for the shield (chimalli) that is part of his name glyph.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Death, decay, decomposition

Feathers

War or Conflict

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

red

white/neutral

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

Keywords:

feathers, shields, rodelas, escudos, feathers, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ihuiteteyo, down ball shield design, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuiteteyo
ihui(tl), feather(s), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl
teteyo, rocky place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teteyo
-yo(tl)-, having that characteristic or quality/inalienable possession, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yotl

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 65 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00...

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)