sedatzauhqui (MH643r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for sedatzauhqui, the occupation of silk spinners (partially a loan word from Spanish), shows loops of silk (seda) thread that are connected at the top and bottom with ties.
Stephanie Wood
The Spanish loanword “seda” (silk) is coming to play in the gloss, combined
with tzauhqui, “spinner” or “weaver.” Silk making, a foreign introduction, was an important industry in sixteenth-century Mexico. There are tiny pockets, such as in the Mixteca, where Indigenous women still make silk thread, feeding mulberry leaves to the silk worms.
Stephanie Wood
sedaçauhgue
sedatzauhqui
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
silk industry, hilo de seda, hilos, oficio
seda, silk (a loanword from Spanish), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/seda
tzauhqui, spinner or weaver, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzauhqui
sedatzauhqui, one who spins silk thread, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/sedatzauhqui
las personas que hacen seda
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 643r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=368&st=image
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