macuahuitl (FCbk9f5v)

This iconographic example, featuring an obsidian blade-studded club (the macuahuitl, also sometimes spelled maccuahuitl) is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making potential comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the keywords chosen by the team behind the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a hand holding the club just above a round wooden ball at the bottom of the club. The wooden part of the club is painted a turquoise blue. Above the hand are three long, flat, black, obsidian blades embedded on each side of the club. The contextualizing image shows that this is a warrior with a feathered banner (panitl) device (tlahuiztli) on his back and behind his head. This is built onto a wooden structure The warrior wears regalia that is–on the left–black with white spots, and, on the right, white with black spots.