hicoxcuahuitl (HJ276:79:6r)

This iconographic image appears as one of four depictions of fig trees on a pictorial manuscript submitted by Indigenous petitioners on or around October 5, 1549, as evidence during a land dispute between the Cuernavacan community of Olac and the Marquesado del Valle. One of the pictorials found in the so-called Códice del Marquesado del Valle, it depicts a total of three outlined properties, the others planted in sugar cane or mulberry trees, each of which were related to enterprises being developed by the Marqués at the time. The plot of land in question here is said to have belonged to don Hernando, undoubtedly Cuernavaca’s powerful tlahtoani of that period. As well as featuring the place glyph for Olac and twelve xihuitl glyphs, the pictorial indicates that the plot measured forty-six (two pantli linked to six black dots, each equaling “one”) by 32 (one tecpantli linked to twelve black dots), though the unit of measure is not shown here (see the contextual image). For more information, see Códices indígenas de algunos pueblos del Marquesado, 1933 and 1883, “Códice núm. 1;" and Santiago Sánchez, Códices del Marquesado del Valle, 2003, 86-90.

See below for some other trees for possible comparisons.