matlatl (Azca25)
This painted black-line drawing of the iconographic example of a fishing and hunting net (matlatl) comes from a scene showing the expansion of the empire under Axayacatl. The net is a large sock-like shape with a mesh pattern. The hoop holding the net connects to a brown wooden pole. This net may be part of a compound glyph for the Matlatzinca area (perhaps Matlatzinco), whose secondary capital was Metepec. Another compound glyphon these pages features Tolocan. It was in the 1470s that Axayacatl brought the valley of Toluca under imperial control.
Stephanie Wood
In some glyphs in the Codex Mendoza, the glyph for the altepetl of Tolocan appears with the appendage of a matlatl and a buttocks (tzintli). See below.
Stephanie Wood
post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.
Jeff Haskett-Wood
redes, malla, pescar, cazar, mango de madera
matla(tl), net for fishing or hunting, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlatl
la red de pesca o caza
Stephanie Wood
The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=25&st=image
The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
