cacaxtli (Mdz42r)

cacaxtli (Mdz42r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This iconographic example of a carrying frame (or pack frame) for the human back with the tumpline that would go over the forehead is included here as a comparison for carrying frames that may appear in glyphs. The frame looks like a small wooden ladder. It is upright here. The tumpline appears to have a white rope with a woven reed band for the forehead.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See the detailed study by Ian Mursell of the carrying frame published in Mexicolore.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

cacaxtle

Gloss Normalization: 

cacaxtli

Gloss 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: 
Rope, cord
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
symmetry
vertical, upright
woven
Keywords: 

estructura para llevar cosas en la espalda, transporte, carrying frames, cacax

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

cacax(tli), a packframe, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cacaxtli

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 42 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 94 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)

See Also: 

Cacax (MH501r)

cacaxtli (TR41v)

tlamama (TR41v)

Motli (MH813v)

cacaxtli (CST44)