Metlacatl (MH648r)

This black-line drawing that was painted with a green watercolor is a simplex glyph for the personal name Metlacatl ("Agave Person" or perhaps "Agave Stalk," attested here as a man's name). It shows simply a green maguey or agave plant (metl) with five slighly curvy branches (pencas in Spanish). Short roots are visible at the bottom of the plant. Whether this name can be translated literally in one of those two ways--with the second one being a combination of metl plus acatl--or whether it simply means "One from Metlan" is difficult to determine. The -tlacatl (person) part of the name is not shown visually.