macuahuitl (TR36v)

macuahuitl (TR36v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This tan and black painting is an iconographic example for the noun macuahuitl (hand-held wooden club).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
tan
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

weapons, clubs, obsidian blades, armas, garrotes, hojas de obsidiana, manos, hands

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

macuahui(tl), hand-held wooden club, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuahuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la macana

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 36 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f98.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

The non-commercial reuse of images from the Bibliothèque nationale de France is free as long as the user is in compliance with the legislation in force and provides the citation: “Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France” or “Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.”

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Yaotl (Verg11r)

tepehualiztli (TR29r)