tlatzoma (FCbk10f23r)

This iconographic example, featuring the verb “to sew” (tlatzoma, or tlahtzoma with the glottal stop), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a fully clothed man, a tailor, sitting on a wooden stool, with a large red piece of cloth on his lap. He punctures the cloth with a large needle. The tailor is wearing a European shirt and trousers and a Nahua elite cloak (tilmatli, or tilmahtli, with the glottal stop), tied on a shoulder, and worn over the other clothing. He is barefooted. The clothing and the red cloth all have some folds and shading that give it a three-dimensionality.