Metlacatl (MH491r)
This black-line drawing of the glyph for the personal name Metlacatl (literally, "Maguey-Person") features a branch (penca, in Spanish) of a maguey plant (metl). It is horizontal, pointing toward the viewer's right. It is covered with thorns or spines. The tlacatl (person) part of this name is not shown visually, although the name refers to a man (baptized Agustín), who is shown in the contextualizing image.
Stephanie Wood
There may be another translation for metlacatl that is eluding us here, and it may be a person from a place that might have been called Metlaco.
Stephanie Wood
augustin metlacatl
Agustín Metlacatl
Stephanie Wood
1560
José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood
magueyes, agaves

me(tl), maguey plant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/metl
tlaca(tl), a person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatl
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 491r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=61&st=image
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