macxochitl (FCbk11f198v)

This iconographic example features a black-line drawing of a group of hand-held flower arrangements (macxochitl), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. Unfortunately, the start of the word (mac-) is running into the binding, and so trying to reconstruct the word has not been very successful. This example shows seven hand-held flower bouquets lying on their sides with their heads to the viewers’ left. The heads have more flowers than the bottoms, and there is a straight handle in the middle of these long bouquets. The handle could be the long stems with something wrapped around them at the top and at the base, binding the flowers that dangle at the bottom.