mitl (Mdz33r)

mitl (Mdz33r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element of an arrow or dart (mitl) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Mitepec (shown below). The arrow is horizontal. It has standard colors, such as the yellow of the acatl reed, a red tip, a red spot at the back end, and decorations of a brown eagle wing feather and a white down feather in between. The reed has a hash mark in the center of the arrow’s shaft, which may suggest a segmentation typical of cane or bamboo (typicaly, acatl).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Feathers
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
brown
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
pointed (see also spiky)
segmented
Keywords: 

arrows, flechas, reeds, canes, cañas, plumas

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

mi(tl), arrow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mitl
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec, at or on the hill/mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec
-c, locative suffix, in or at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c-7chol

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la flecha

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 33 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 76 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

See Also: 

Mitepec (Mdz33r)

mitl (Mdz2r)

mitl (Mdz40r)