tzontli (Azca8)
This example of iconography from the Codex Azcatitlan shows a male figure in the migration of Aztlan who is wearing a lock of his hair tied with what is possibly a red thong, but there is a term for a red hair tie (tochacatl) that comes up in the Digital Florentine Codex, Book 8, f. 33v., and is apparently made of cord or something like candle-wick. The lock stands straight up at the top of his head, much like the "warrior" hairstyle called the temillotl and a tzontli. The tie here has a prominent bow.
Stephanie Wood
See other examples of the tzontli below, which support our choice of the term tzontli for this example of iconography.
Stephanie Wood
post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century
Jeff Haskett-Wood
cabello, pelo, peinado, guerreros, shamanes, hairdo, locks, ponytails, temillotli, temilotl, temilotli
tzon(tli), hair, warrior hairstyle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
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.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=8&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.
