tlacochtli (Mdz18r)

tlacochtli (Mdz18r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This element for a type of arrow or spear (tlacochtli) has been carved from the title Tlacochtecuhtli. It is a vertical arrow, yellow in its shaft (which is apparently made from the acatl plant) and decorated with a gray-purple wing feather (probably from an eagle) and a white down feather.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Plants, Flora

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

purple (light)/lavender

white/neutral

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

vertical, upright

Keywords:

arrows, flechas, feathers, plumas, reeds, cañas, jabalinas, lanzas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlacoch(tli), a projectile, such as an arrow, spear, or javelin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

una flecha

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 18 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 46 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)