otlatl (Mdz28r)
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.
Stephanie Wood
Called "otates" in Mexican Spanish today, these canes are used, for example, as fencing material.
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
canes, carrizo, cañas, material de cercado
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otla(tl), bamboo, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/otlatl
Codex Mendoza, folio 28 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 66 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)