texochimaca (FCbk4f69v)

This is an iconographic example of the verb texochimaca (to give a gift of flowers), which involves the verb maca (to give) and xochitl (flowers). It shows a woman holding a large flower with five visible petals and two anthers. The petals are red, the anthers are red with green stems, the flower stem is also green, as are the four visible roots, but a tiny circle of red at the top of each root. The woman also seems to offer a tobacco tube with three curls of smoke coming from the tip. The woman is also speaking, for a red speech scroll comes from her mouth. Her skiing is a flesh tone with some gray three-dimensionality. Her blouse (a huipilli) has vertical gray and red stripes and some red dots. At the base of the V-neck is a rectangular piece of red fabric. Her hair is black and worn in the neaxtlahualli style of adult women, with the two protrusions above the forehead.