ilama icno (MH652v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the label and social category ilama icno ("humble elder women") is attested here as pertaining to women. The glyph shows the head of a woman in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Her hair has the diagnostic style, the neaxtlahualli, with the hair bound into to points, one on either side of the forehead. Some faint lines on her cheeks may intend wrinkles, as an indicator of her age. She has no personal name.
Stephanie Wood
ylama ycno
Ilamaicno
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
mujeres, humildes, pobres, tristes, desconocidas, sin nombres
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ilama, elder woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ilama
icno-, humble, in a sad state, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icno
mujer humilde
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 652v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=387&st=image
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