yopitzontli (Mdz20r)

yopitzontli (Mdz20r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the word yopitzontli (flat cap with a conical shape), doubles as the place name for Yopico. It has a red and white cone at the top, with a cord at the base of the cone, and two bifurcated pieces come down from the cone on the right and the left. They are also red and white.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This hat--and apparently some hairstyles--are associated with a deity or divine force called Yopi.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice
Hair (human or animal)
Religion (Indigenous)
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
bifurcated
pointed (see also spiky)
striped
tripartite
Keywords: 

cabelleras, sombreros, deidades

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

yopitzon(tli), a flat hat with a conical shape, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yopitzontli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Un Sombrero o Cabellero Associado con la Deidad "Yopi"

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 20 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

See Also: 

Yopico (Mdz20r)