Yaotl (MH484v)
This simplex glyph for the personal name Yaotl ("The Combatant") doubles as the simplex for the noun yaotl (enemy). It is a circle with a white cross dividing it into four parts. These parts are colored in with black paint or black ink. The result is a war shield.
Stephanie Wood
This war shield combines European with Indigenous styles.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Stephanie Wood
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yaotl, enemy, combatant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl.
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 484v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=48&st=image.
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