tilmatli (T1871:1)

tilmatli (T1871:1)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This iconographic example is described in the companion text as "çe çotl tilmatli" (ce zotl tilmatli). The visual is a vertical rectangle, much longer than it is wide. It has no added coloring, just neutral, outlined in black.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

A zotl could be a piece of cloth or a specific measurement for cloth. If a measurement, it was one quarter of a pierna (a Spanish measure for cloth, perhaps the length of a leg). It may also refer here to a piece of cloth meant for use as a tilmatli (cloak). This was a tribute item that had to be produced by the community every three months ("hey metztica"), which was also shown visually at three crescent moons in the original. There is a glyph for zotl from the Codex Mendoza (see below).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
AGN Tierras 1871, exp. 1
Date of Manuscript: 

1558

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Cuauhtla, Morelos

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
rectangular
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

cloth, clothing, fabric, ropa, telas, tilmas

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

zo(tl), one quarter of a pierna (a measure for cloth), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zotl
tilma(tli), cloth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tilmatli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la tilma

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Single-page codex, Archivo General de la Nación, México, Ramo de Tierras, vol. 1871, exp. 1, fol. 28r.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), México, holds the original manuscript. This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the AGN and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

See Also: 

zotl (Mdz35r)