Xico (MH736r)
This black-line drawing of a bee (xicotli) is included here as an example of iconography because we do not have a gloss that identifies the man’s Nahuatl name as “Xico.” Some men did hold this name. Here, the man in question is called Diego Almeda. He is dressed as a tecuhtli (lord) and sits in a building that could well be a teccalli (palace). The bee is drawn in exquisite detail with eyes, striped wings and body, and curling antennae.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
abejas, nombres de hombres
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xico(tli), a large honey bee, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xicotli
la abeja
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 736r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=550&st=image
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