nochtli (MH485r)

nochtli (MH485r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black and white drawing of an element for the fruit (nochtli) of the nopalli cactus has been carved from the compound sign for the personal name, Cuauhnochtli. The upright fruit is rounded and spiny. It has something of a crown-shaped flower blossom at the top.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This nochtli can be compared to various glyphs from the Codex Mendoza (see below). As those show, the word nochtli can represent just the fruit (called tuna in Spanish) or it can be represented appearing on the entire nopalli (prickly pear cactus).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
spiny
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

tunas, nopales

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

nochtli, fruit of cactus, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nochtli.

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).

See Also: 

nochtli (Mdz38r)

nochtli (Mdz43r)

nochtli (Mdz2r)

nochtli (Mdz15v)

nochtli (Mdz19r)

nochtli (Mdz18r)