totolin (T1871:1)

totolin (T1871:1)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a painting of the simplex glyph for the noun, totolin (a wild turkey hen). It is shown in profile, facing toward the viewer's left. Its eye is open, beak closed, head feathers are white, and the wing and back feathers are varicolored.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

çentetl totolin

Gloss Normalization: 

centetl totolin

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
AGN Tierras 1871, exp. 1
Date of Manuscript: 

1558

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Cuauhtla, Morelos

Syntax: 
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres

Colors: 
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

totolin, domestic fowl, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/totolin

Image Source: 

Single-page codex, Archivo General de la Nación, México, Ramo de Tierras, vol. 1871, exp. 1, fol. 28r.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), México, holds the original manuscript. This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the AGN and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.