Marina (LTlaxUT1b)

This iconographic example is included here for possible comparisons with Nahuatl hieroglyphs. It features doña Marina, the Nahua interpreter to Cortés. In this scene, she is standing up with a long red-and-white handwoven blouse (huipilli) that is worn over a skirt or culottes that are also red and white. The huipilli has a red mesh pattern, but above and below it are horizontal stripes with rows of shapes that are like quincunxes, designs involving X-shapes and little arrows pointing toward the center of the X. She wears reddish shoes of a design that is very much like what the Spaniards in her presence are wearing.. Her hair is long and wavy, hanging over her shoulder and down her back. We see here in a ¾ view, although her head is in profile. She faces toward the right and upward. Her arms are raised out in front of her, but the left one is higher and gesturing.