iyetl (MH504r)

iyetl (MH504r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This iconographic example for the occupation involving the making of tobacco tubes (iyetl) or incense sticks (acayetl) shows a stick at an angle, leaning right, and the upper/right half of the stick is thicker and black, as though dipped in something. Or, possibly a bundle of rolled tobacco leaves has been inserted into one end of the bamboo-like tube (perhaps what is called carrizo in Mexican Spanish).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Iyetl and acayetl are a challenge to distinguish visually. In his translations of the Cantares, John Bierhorst (Ballads of the Lords of New Spain, 2010, 24, note 117) calls iyetl "smoking tubes" and acayetl "reed incense."

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Occupations
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
facing right
Keywords: 

tobacco, tobaco, incense, incienso, occupations, oficios

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

iye(tl), incense or tobacco, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iyetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el tubo de tabaco, o la varita de incienso

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 504r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=87&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

iyetl (Mdz12r)

acayetl (Mdz42r)

acayetl (Mdz67r)

Acaye (MH613v)