mixtli (MH485r)

mixtli (MH485r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for clouds [mixtli has been carved from the compound sign for the personal name, Mixcoatl. This is a black line drawing of a cluster of cloud segments (apparently in the sky), left natural inside the lines. The clouds in this example have small hash marks, slightly curved, perhaps meant to give the clouds a three-dimensional effect.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood

Keywords: 

clouds, nubes, skies, cielos

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

los nubes

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 485r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&st=image.

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

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