tzontli (MH519r)

tzontli (MH519r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the glyphic element, tzontli ("a lock of hair"), has been extracted from the personal name glyph, Cuauhtzon (see below).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Syntax: 
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Keywords: 

cabeza, cabello, pelo

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tzon(tli), a lock of hair or the head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 519r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=117&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).