otlatl (Mdz28r)

otlatl (Mdz28r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the place name Otlazpan also serves here as an entry for otlatl), a type of cane something like carrizo in Spanish but longer and stronger. Here it appears as three upright stalks that are segmented like bamboo and colored yellow. The stalks are fatter at the bottom and more pointed at the top.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Called "otates" in Mexican Spanish today, these canes are used, for example, as fencing material.

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Plants, Flora
Colors: 
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
tripartite
Keywords: 

canes, carrizo, cañas, material de cercado

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

otla(tl), bamboo, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/otlatl

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 28 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 66 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

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)

See Also: 

Otlazpan (Mdz28r)

otlatl (Mdz42r)

otlatl (Mdz46r)