mitl (Mdz33r)

mitl (Mdz33r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Mitepec. The arrow is horizontal. It has standard colors, such as the yellow of the acatl reed, a red tip, a red spot at the back end, and decorations of a brown eagle wing feather and a white down feather in between. The reed has a hash mark in the center of the arrow’s shaft, which may suggest a segmentation typical of cane or bamboo (typicaly, acatl).

Description, 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: 
Feathers
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
brown
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
pointed (see also spiky)
segmented
Keywords: 

arrows, flechas, reeds, canes, cañas, plumas

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

mi(tl), arrow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mitl
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec, at or on the hill/mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec
-c, locative suffix, in or at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c-7chol

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la flecha

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 33 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 76 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: 

mitl (Mdz2r)

mitl (Mdz40r)

Mitepec (Mdz33r)