Totol (MH484v)
This simplex glyph represents the personal name Totol. It is the head of a hen (totolin), possibly a turkey hen. The head is shown in profile, looking up and to the viewer's right. There is a protrusion above the (closed) beak, and the protrusion curves upward. The feathers on the head are red; perhaps some are also white (or else this is a result of the way the colorant was applied).
Stephanie Wood
The totolin of the Matrícula de Huexotzinco is much simpler than the totolin of the Codex Mendoza, as the examples below will indicate. Notice how the name Totol is just the stem of the word totolin.
Stephanie Wood
juā totol
Juan Totol
Stephanie Wood
1560
Xitlali Torres
hens, gallinas, turkeys, guajolotes, pavos, feathers, plumas
totol(in), hen, turkey hen, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/totolin
La Gallina
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 484v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=48&st=image.
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