Tequitotol (MH500r)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tequitotol ("Cut Turkey," or "Turkey Tribute," here, attested as a man’s name or perhaps his tribute duty/occupation) shows the head of a wild turkey or turkey hen (totolin). The turkey is just a head in profile, looking toward the viewer's left. The head is striped, which could possibly be interpreted as being sliced or cut up (from the verb, tequi, to cut up). But the cuts could alternatively be a phonetic indicator for tequitl (tributes), as the name might refer to tributes in turkeys. Perhaps this man had the task of raising turkeys or collecting them from members of the community and delivering them to the Indigenous municipal authorities or the Spanish colonial officials.