Quetzalihuitl (MH488v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Quetzalihuitl (“Quetzal Feathers,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a cluster of four or five small, rounded feathers. These are not the usual, long quetzal feathers.
Stephanie Wood
See below for comparisons with other quetzal feathers.
Stephanie Wood
pedro guetzallihuitl
Pedro Quetzalihuitl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Xitlali Torres
plumas, quetzales
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quetzal(li), quetzal feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli
ihui(tl), feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl
Plumas de Quetzal
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 488v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=56&st=image.
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