Quetzalpepena (MH708v)
Stephanie Wood
The verb pepena is most often paired with the noun xochitl (flower). See five examples, below. In all of these, a hand is there to make the selection.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
plumas, quetzales, escoger, verbos, nombres de hombres
quetzal(li), quetzal feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli
pepena, to choose or select, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pepena
Él Escoge Plumas de Quetzal
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 708v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=495&st=image.
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