chipolcozcatl (Mdz64r)

chipolcozcatl (Mdz64r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a closeup of a necklace (cozcatl) made of snail shells or small marine shells (chipolli). This necklace (chipolcozcatl) is a red band (perhaps a leather thong) strung with white shells. As shown in the contextualization image, a male warrior is wearing it.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This iconographic detail is included here as an aid to deciphering glyphs, such as shells and necklaces. See also some other examples below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Keywords:

chipulcozcatl, chipolcozcatl, collares, necklaces, pieles, cueros, tangas, caracoles, caracolillos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chipolcozca(tl), snail shell(s), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chipolcozcatl
cozca(tl), necklace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcatl
chipol(li), snail shells, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chipolli

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 64 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 138 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)

Historical Contextualizing Image: