icali (TR34v)
This example of a skirmish (for which we have arbitrarily chosen the Nahuatl verb icali) shows two men in a 3/4 view, wearing only loincloths, each one reaching up to pull the hair of the other one. The hair on their heads is dark brown or black, and it hangs down just covering the ears. The loincloths are white. The men's skin tone is terracotta.
Stephanie Wood
Grabbing someone by the hair and pulling hair can be found as a glyph for tlamani, one who captures others in war. This collection also contains various examples of hair pulling (see below).
To pull or cut someone's hair in Nahua culture was a grave insult and cause of intense emotion. Sonya Lipsett-Rivera writes about the ritual humiliation of hair pulling in Religion in New Spain, eds. Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole (2007), 79.
Stephanie Wood
tuvieron una gran batalla
Stephanie Wood
ca. 1550–1563
Jeff Haskett-Wood
batallar, pelear, escaramuzar, hair pulling, tirón de pelo, pull, jalar
icali, to fight or skirmish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icali
tlamani, to capture others in war, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamani
hubo gran batalla
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Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 34 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f94.item.zoom
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