cozcatl (Mdz34r)
This element for cozcatl (necklace) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Cincozcac. It is a necklace made from three ears of corn (cintli), two yellow (one the sides) and one red (at the bottom). The cobs are connected by a green cord or leather thong, and there is a knot at the top that would go behind the wearer's head.
Stephanie Wood
See below for a wide range of necklace designs.
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
collares, maíz
cozcatl, necklace, jewel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcatl-0
necklace
el collar
Stephanie Wood
Codex Mendoza, folio 34 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 78 of 188.
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).