mitl (Mdz66r)
This example of iconography shows an arrow, what we are labeling mitl here, even though it is not glossed as such. This detail comes from a scene where a servant of a cacique (an Indigenous elite male, a word from Taíno) is hunting with a bow and arrow. The arrow is a terracotta or tan color, which may suggest wood instead of the yellow of the acatl. It has what may be a sharp, black, obsidian point. It is difficult to tell if it has feather decorations.
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
Stephanie Wood
mi(tl), arrow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mitl
la flecha
Stephanie Wood
Codex Mendoza, folio 66 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 142 of 188.
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)