petlacalli (MH554v)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This black-line drawing of the element petlacalli (woven container) has been taken from the personal name glyph, Tozpetlacal (see below).
Description, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Source Manuscript:
Date of Manuscript:
1560
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Cultural Content & Iconography:
Cultural Content, Credit:
Jeff Haskett-Wood
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Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
petlacal(li), a container made of straw, a deep basket with a cover, in which things were stored, a woven wicker hamper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/petlacalli
Image Source:
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 554v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=188&st=image.
Image Source, Rights:
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).
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