tlatlama (Azca19)
This painted black-line drawing of the iconographic example of fishing shows a 3/4 view of a man seated in a flat-bottomed canoe or boat that is very rectangular and painted red. Only visible from the waist up, the man’s torso is unclothed. The skin is painted a tan or flesh tone. The man’s hair is long and falling over his back. With both hands he holds a brown fishing pole at an angle. A line is tied to the upper tip of the pole, and a fish dangles from the end of the line. As the contextualizing image shows, another fish pokes its head up above the water, but the fish on the line is out of the water. It has scales, a fin, a bifurcated tail, and a ring around its neck.
Stephanie Wood
Note how this fish compares to other fish (michin), commonly used for the glyph of the name Mimich. Some of these examples also have bifurcated tails. This method of fishing differs from the method involving a net (usually called the matlatl). For other examples of boats similar to this one, see the acalli glyphs, below. The appearance of birds in the contextualizing image may suggest that the net might be used for catching birds, too.
Stephanie Wood
post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.
Jeff Haskett-Wood
caña de pescar, peces, lanchas, canoas, pájaros
tlatlama, to hunt, fish, or take captives, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatlama
Pescar
Stephanie Wood
The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=19&st=image
The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
