Quetzalayatl (MH513r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Quetzalayatl (here, attested as a man's name) shows a frontal view of a rectangle cloth (ayatl) with knots in the upper right and left corners. The gathering of the fabric in the corners provides a three-dimensionality. Coming up from behind the cloth are three, slightly curvy, feathers. From the gloss we learn that these are quetzalli feathers.
Stephanie Wood
The various cloaks, blankets, and cloths in this collection can be tracked and compared. A few are provided below.
aol guetzalayatl
Alonso Quetzalayatl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
birds, feathers, pájaros, plumas, telas, fabrics, cloths, nombres de hombres
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quetzal(li), quetzal feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli
aya(tl), a type of cloth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayatl
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 513r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=105&st=image
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