tzontli (MH618v)

tzontli (MH618v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the noun, tzontli (hair), has been extracted from the compound glyph for the personal name, Cuauhtzon (see below).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
numbers
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Hair (human or animal)
Numbers, Math
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
spiky
Keywords: 

números, 400, cuatrocientos, pelo, cabello

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

tzon(tli), hair, and the number 400 in some settings, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 618v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=319st=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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cuauhtzon (MH618v)

tzontli (MH504r)

tzontli (MH506v)

tzontli (MH549v)

tzontli (MH518v)