iquitqui (FCbk10f24r)

This iconographic example, featuring a woman weaver (iquitqui, or ihquitqui 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 previous page of text to the image, as found in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a Nahua woman weaving with a backstrap loom. It is tied to a European-style column. She sits on a pink or red tile floor. So, the setting shows considerable Spanish-colonial influence. The woman’s personal effects and posture, however, are little changed from the autonomous era. Her hair is in the classic style for mature women, the neaxtlahualli or axtlacuilli. She is dressed in a hand-woven tunic (huipilli) with a quincunx design on the patch at the base of the V-neck. She also wears a skirt (cueitl) under the tunic. Her clothing has some folds that are marked by shading, giving it a three-dimensionality (typical of the European artistic influence revealed by this manuscript).