tepanyaqui (TR17r)

This iconographic example from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis shows a horizontal, deceased woman who has been garroted, strangled by a white cord or rope. She is shown in a semi-frontal (a twisted body), semi-profile view (her face). She is naked but still wears what appears to be a round turquoise ear plug. She has red blood emerging from her mouth, her side, and her bottom. Her tongue is white and protruding, and her white teeth are visible. Her one visible eye is closed. Her hair is long and separated into perhaps twelve wavy clumps, somewhat wildly displayed. Her stomach has folds that suggest she has borne children.