Maxochitl (MH877v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Maxochitli (perhaps “Hand-held Flowers”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a bouquet of three flowers that seem to be wrapped, tied in the middle, and have some stems or roots hanging loose at the bottom. The wrapper has two vertical hash marks of unclear significance.
Stephanie Wood
Hand-held flower arrangements were primarily used for dancing, judging from iconographic examples of dancers. See tother Maxochitl glyphs below.
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juo maxochitli
Juan Maxochitl
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1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
flores, manos, nombres de hombres

ma(itl), hand or arm, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
literalmente, Mano-Flores
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 877v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=827&st=image.
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