Yacatl (MH647r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yacatl ("Nose" or "Leader," attested here as a man's name) shows a human nose in profile, facing toward the viewer's right.
Stephanie Wood
Body parts sometimes had meanings beyond the literal, so a yacatl could be a mountain peak or point, and a yacatl could be a leader, given how our nose leads the way when we go forward. There are also human shoulders and elbows that refer to bends in rivers, and the like.
Stephanie Wood
philipe yacatl
Felipe Yacatl
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
narices, líderes, anatomía, nombres de hombres
yaca(tl), nose, point, or leader, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yacatl
Nariz
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 647r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=376&st=image
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