Papalotecatl (MH733r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnic affiliation, Papalotecatl (“Person from Papalotlan") is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows a butterfly (papalotl) in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left.
Stephanie Wood
The tlacuilos of the Matrícula de Huexotzinco usually painted butterfly glyphs in a profile view. This one is especially detailed and well executed. See below for two examples where butterflies appear in a frontal or bird’s eye view.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
mariposas, afiliacíon, etnicidad, barrios, pueblos, nombres de hombres
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/PapalotecatlMH733rSmplxPerNamMale.png?itok=SUuNWROG)
papalo(tl), butterfly, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/papalotl
-tecatl (affiliation suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecatl
(una persona de Papalotlan)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 733r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=544&st=image
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![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/PapalotecatlMH733rContext.png)