quemitl (Mdz20r)
This element for a ritual vestment or bib, the quemitl) [or quimitl has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tequemecan. The vestment is a trapezoid-shaped white paper with an attached tie. The bottom edge has what may be cuts.
Stephanie Wood
There are several representations of quemitl from the Codex Mendoza. The resulting phonetic root is often queme-, with a final e instead of i. That this is paper is drawn from the analysis of something similar from the Códice Borbónico analyzed in a publication by Johanna Broda from 2019. Other quemitl from the Codex Mendoza were feathered (see below, right).
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
quemetl, quimitl, vestments, ritual bibs
quemi(tl), vestment, ritual bib, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quemitl
prenda de pecho
Stephanie Wood
Codex Mendoza, folio 20 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 50 of 188.
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).