xilotl (TR26r)
This element for a tender maize cob [xilotl shows a frontal view of a full corn plant with one red ear of maize with yellow silk. The plant is white, but it also has a yellow tassel that curves toward the viewer's right.
ca. 1550–1563
maize, corn, maíz, tierno, tender, green, plantas, plantas, agricultura
xilo(tl), tender ear of green maize, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xilotl
la mazorca tierna, el jilote, el elote
Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 26 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f77.item.zoom
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