tlachpana (Osu13v)

This painted simplex Nahuatl hieroglyph features a man holding a broom. He was one of a group of twenty (what would be a tecpantli, in Nahuatl) Indigenous men drafted for service to the Spanish overlord (indios de servicio, in Spanish)–indicated by the white flag (pantli or tecpantli, twenty) with a red post. These men were expected to sweep (tlachpana) and fetch water. The latter is shown in the contextualizing image by way of a pottery jug with three little hieroglyphic streams of water coming out of the top.