mina (Mdz7v)

mina (Mdz7v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for the verb to shoot, as in shoot arrows (mina), has been carved from the compound glyph of the name Ilhuicamina. The tip of the arrow is cut off in this example. The shaft is yellow and red. It was probably made from a reed plant, the acatl. It has a gray wing feather (probably from an eagle) and three white down feathers.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The arrow is symbolic of the action of shooting because, in the original compound glyph (see below), it pierces the sky band or heaven above it.

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Feathers
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
gray
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Keywords: 

verbs, verbos, disparar, flechas, shoot, feathers, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

mina, to shoot, stab, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mina

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

disparar (una flecha)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 7 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 25, of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)

See Also: 

Ilhuicamina (Mdz7v)

mitl (Mdz40r)

Xiuhtlamin (MH527v)