yacatl (Mdz44r)

yacatl (Mdz44r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for a nose (yacatl) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Huaxyacac. Actually, an entire face (in profile, looking to the viewer's right) is shown, much more than just the nose. The face is painted a terracotta color. The one visible eye is white. The word for face is xayacatl, which contains the word yacatl.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This glyph could also double as a locative suffix, -yacac, at or on a ridge, point, or peak in the landscape. See additional noses/ridges below, right.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Landscape Features
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
orange/terracotta
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
pointed (see also spiky)
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

noses, narices, nariz, faces, caras

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

yaca(tl), nose, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yacatl
-yacac, point, peak, or ridge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yacac
xayaca(tl), face, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xayacatl

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

nose

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la nariz, o la cresta

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 44 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 98 of 188.

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: 

Huaxyacac (Mdz44r)

yacatl (Mdz42r)

yacatl (Mdz10v)

yacatl (Mdz24v)

yacatl (Mdz8r)

yacatl (Mdz24v)