neanoni (FCbk8f31v)

neanoni (FCbk8f31v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a belt (neanoni) for a backstrap loom, is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making potential comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text on the same page as this image. This example shows a backstrap with two predominant elements. For some comfort to the back when the strap is pulled by the loom (usually attached at the other end to a tree or post), there is a petate-like woven belt (in yellow). At each end of the belt are short ropes with loops at their ends, so that the belt can be attached to the lower end of the loom.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Belts for carrying frames (e.g., cacaxtli and centlamantli) and baskets borne on the back in long-distance trade looked much like this one. But when the woven part went onto the forehead, this is what we now call a tumpline.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Neanoni

Gloss Normalization:

neanoni

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (female)

Rope, cord, string

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

white/neutral

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

tied, bound, or bundled

vertical, upright

woven

Keywords:

tejer, tecnología, petate, petates, soga, sogas, telares, cinturones, tejido, textiles, mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

neanoni, belt for a backstrap loom, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/neanoni

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el cinturón para un telar

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 8: Kings and Lords", fol. 31v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/8/folio/31v/images/0 Accessed 16 August 2025.

Image Source, Rights:

Images of the digitized Florentine Codex are made available under the following Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International). For print-publication quality photos, please contact the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ([email protected]). The Library of Congress has also published this manuscript, using the images of the World Digital Library copy. “The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection. Absent any such restrictions, these materials are free to use and reuse.”

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