teocuitlatl (Mdz46r)

teocuitlatl (Mdz46r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painting of a string of gold (teocuitlatl) beads is included here as an iconographic example. The Spanish-language gloss makes it clear that these are gold beads. There are eleven gold beads running horizontally on a red cord or leather thong. Either this is a necklace or the beads were strung to preserve them.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

For a string of gold beads worthy of comparison, see the examples from the Códice de Tepeucila that have been published in TLACHIA, Contextos Pictográficos del Náhuatl, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México [Ciudad Universitaria, México D.F.]: 2012 [ref del 01-07-2024], https://tlachia.iib.unam.mx/glifos/cempohualli%20ommatlactli%20teocuitla....

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

cuētas de / oro

Gloss Normalization:

cuentas de oro

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:

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Leather, hides

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Religion (Indigenous)

Colors:

red

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

horizontal

frontal view

Keywords:

oro, sarta de cuentas, collares, tributos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

teocuitla(tl), precious metal, gold, silver, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teocuitlatl

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 46 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 102 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)