Mihua (MH527r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mihua ("Possessor of Arrows," here, attested as a man’s name) shows a vertical arrow (mitl) with the point down. The arrow is decorated with feathers, very typical. The -hua possessive suffix is not shown visually in this glyph.
Stephanie Wood
James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 120) agrees with the translation "Possessor of Arrows." He categorizes this name as "martial." The example he found of it is in the censuses of the Cuernavaca region, 1535–1545.
Not all arrows have added obsidian points as this one does.
Stephanie Wood
diego. mihuā
Diego Mihua
Stephanie Wood
1560
Daniel Chayet
mihua, a possessor of arrows, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mihua
El Poseedor de Flechas
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 527r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=133&st=image.
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