ichcatl (Mdz40r)

ichcatl (Mdz40r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for cotton (ichcatl) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Ichcaatoyac. It has a two-tone green stem and a flower of three white cotton bolls. We have rotated this image 90 degrees counter-clockwise. The hash marks should appear across the top, but they were mixed with the surrounding water.

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: 
Plants, Flora
Colors: 
green (dark)
green (light)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
tripartite
U-shapes (any direction)
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

ichca(tl), cotton, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ichcatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la flor del algodón

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 40 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 90 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: 

Ichcaatoyac (Mdz40r)