teocuitlatl (Mdz46r)
This painting of a string of gold (teocuitlatl) beads is included here as an iconographic example. The Spanish-language gloss makes it clear that these are gold beads. There are eleven gold beads running horizontally on a red cord or leather thong. Either this is a necklace or the beads were strung to preserve them.
Stephanie Wood
cuētas de / oro
cuentas de oro
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
oro, cuentas, collares, tributos
teocuitla(tl), precious metal, gold, silver, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teocuitlatl
Codex Mendoza, folio 46 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 102 of 188.
Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)