Oton (MH521r)
This black-line drawing of the personal name (or ethnicity) glyph, Oton (here, attested as male), shows the head of a man in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. His face is painted with both vertical and horizontal lines that intersect. He apparently has a lip plug (possibly a tentetl, literally a lip stone, or a tezacatl) with a sharp end that points outward from his lip and chin. His hairstyle is a normal man's hairstyle.
Stephanie Wood
In this digital collection, face paint or tattooing has ethnic associations, involving Chichimecs, the Otomí, the Tlaxcalteca, and those who were “different” (e.g. the Tlamaca). Divine forces, such as Ecatl (or Ehecatl) and Xolotl, also have some face paint or tattoos.
Stephanie Wood
augustín oton
Agustín Oton
Stephanie Wood
1560
Stephanie Wood and José Aguayo-Barragán
etnicidad, otomites, caras pintadas, labrets, enchufes, tapones, labios, bezotes, adornos labiales, jewelry, jollas, lip plugs, lip-plugs, nombres de hombres
otomitl, an ethnicity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/otomitl
Otontecuhtli, Otomí Lord, a regional sacred force or deity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/otontecuhtli
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 521r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=121&st=image
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).
