Xochimilca (Azca17)
This painted black-line drawing of the compound noun for the ethnicity Xochimilca (“People of Xochimilco”) doubles as the place name for Xochimilco. It shows a flower with three visible petals and a yellow or golden three-part base. Below the flower is a rectangle with three horizontal stripes, representing an agricultural field called a milli. The top layer is dotted, the middle layer is blank, and the bottom layer has sideways V-shapes.
Stephanie Wood
The bottom layer of the agricultural field is partly obscured by a weapon, so we have restored it. The original painting appears in the contextualizing image. There, one can see the Xochimilca and the Mexica were at war.
Stephanie Wood
xochimillca
Xochimilca
Stephanie Wood
post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.
Jeff Haskett-Wood
flores, milpas, etnicidades, pueblos, nombres de lugares
Xochimilco, “Place of Flower Fields,” an altepetl south of Mexico City, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochimilco
xoch(itl), flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
mil(li), agricultural field, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/milli
-ca or -catl (ethnic suffix, plural and singular), in or on,
https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
la gente de Xochimilco
Stephanie Wood
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, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=17&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.
