panitl (MH525r)
This black-line drawing of the element panitl (flag, banner) has been extracted from the compound personal name or pueblo affiliation, Xochipan ("In the Flowers"). This explains the flowers that comprise the banner of the flag, which is upright and faces toward the viewer's right. There are three horizontal flowers, each with a tripartite sepal.
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Flags such as this might not really have existed. Rather, the flowers were combined with the panitl for the sake of economy of space. The same might be said of other compounds that involve flags to elicit the phonetic -pan-, as seen below.
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1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
flag, bandera, banner, bandera, flowers, flores
pan(itl), flag, banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
la bandera
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 525r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=129&st=image.
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