Tlaconahuacatl (MH826v)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Tlaconahuacatl (“Person from Tlaconahuac”), is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph shows the head of a man (perhaps a second-born child, tlacotl, or an enslaved person, tlacotli), although there is no neck yoke, which would be typical of signaling slavery. This head is shown in profile, facing the viewer’s left. Behind the head is a group of reeds or canes (acatl). Four (nahui) reeds may have been the intention, but there are actually five. Four Reed (Nauhacatl, also spelled Nahuacatl) is a popular calendrical name. This is all a phonetic rendering for the town name, Tlaconahuac, which really refers to the place near (nahuac) osier twigs (tlacotl).