nanahuatl (FCbk10f109v)

This iconographic example, featuring a man with a rash (nanahuatl) that covers his entire body, is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. The man with the rash apparently wears only a loincloth. He sits on a small yellow seat, perhaps a woven icpalli. The rash appears as numerous dots. The contextualizing image shows that a woman healer is attending to the man with the rash. She sits behind him, and while his body faces left, his head turns all the way around to look at the woman behind him. She kneels and reaches to touch his back or shoulder. Their clothing is white cotton. With her huipilli and skirt (cueitl) an attempt has been made to provide shading, for three-dimensionality, a European artistic style. The ground that is visible (also European in stylistics) is brown and blue. It is unclear if the blue is intended to be water; it so, the man with the rash is sitting on a box in the water (lake? river?), and she kneels in it.