mitl (Mdz23r)
This element for an arrow (mitl) has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Miacatla. It is a standard arrow in design and color, with the exception of the elaborate point it carries. The shaft is from an acatl reed, yellow with red ends, and decorated with a brown eagle wing feather and a white down feather. Arrows can appear horizontal or vertical (as this one). See below, right.
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
arrows, flechas
mi(tl), arrow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mitl
arrow
Codex Mendoza, folio 23 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 56 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).