Tayauh (MH518v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tayauh (perhaps "Our Cloth" or "Marigold," attested as a man's name) shows a rectangular cloth (ayatl) with a diamond mesh pattern and knots in the upper corners. The possessive pronoun "our" (t-) and the suffix -uh, are not represented visually. If this is not literally "Our Cloth," then the cloth plays a phonetic role for evoking Teyauh (short for teyauhtli, marigold).
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The knots in the cloth recall the tilmatli, the cape or cloak worn by elite men and artisans. (See the knot on the shoulder of the tlacuilo, below.)
One might track and compare the various types of cloaks and cloths or blankets across the collection. A few are provided below.
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a(?)resandre tayauh
Alejandro Tlayauh
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1560
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fabrics, cloths, telas, mantas, bailador, bailar, nombres de hombres
aya(tl), a cloak, a blanket, a cloth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayatl
-uh, possessive suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/uh
to-, first person plural possessive pronoun, our, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783
Nuestra Tela
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 518v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=116&st=image
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