octli (Mdz71r)
This iconographic detail from the Codex Mendoza is meant to provide comparative support for the analysis of glyphs showing octli (pulque, a mildly alcoholic beverage). The symbol on the bowl is the yacametztli (called a nariguera in Spanish, which refers to a nose crescent or a nose ornament, something associated with pulque).
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The foam bubbles up above the level of the top of the vessel. Foam was (and still is) a prized aspect of various beverages in Mesoamerican cultures.
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c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
Stephanie Wood
noses, narices, ornaments, ornamentos, beverages, bebidas, pulque, tazón, nariguera, yacametztli
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/octli71rpulqueICON%28nogloss%29.png?itok=WMSOmqOk)
oc(tli), pulque, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/octli
yacametz(tli), a crescent-shaped nose ornament, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/octli
Codex Mendoza, folio 71 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 152 of 188.
Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)