peon (Osu15r)
This example of iconography, included here for potential comparisons with glyphs, comes from the Codex Osuna, folio 15 recto (or Image 32). It shows what is glossed as a peón (a day laborer, in a loanword from Spanish). It is a Nahua man shown in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. His extends his right arm, and he is holding a huictli (agricultural tool) in it. The term huictli is not provided on this page; we are supplying the term based on comparisons with other such tools.
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The tool this man holds is emblematic of farm labor, of agricultural work. For example, the glyph for farm laborer, tlaquehual, is simply this tool. A person simply holding the huictli is assumed to be an agricultural laborer.
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1551–1565
Jeff Haskett-Wood
peones, trabajo, agricultura, herramientas, tecnología
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peón, day laborer (a loan from Spanish into Nahuatl), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pe%C3%B3n
el peón
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Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico (Pintura del Gobernador, Alcaldes y Regidores de México), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
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