ilamatl (Mdz71r)
This example of iconography from the Codex Mendoza shows an older woman in profile looking to the viewer's right. Her hair is coiffed and her face is lined. Her hair is a grayish purple. Her skin is a tan color. Her mouth is open and she may have missing teeth.
Stephanie Wood
vieja muger
vieja mujer
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/ilamatl71roldwomanICON.png?itok=D6l1ZYq8)
ilama(tl), elder female, old woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ilamatl
vieja mujer
Stephanie Wood
Codex Mendoza, folio 71 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 152 of 188.
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)
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/ilamatl71rContext.png)