miyahuatl (MH619r)

miyahuatl (MH619r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the element miyahuatl (maize tassel flower) doubles as the name Tomiyauh (see link below), a woman's name. The miyahuatl is a maize tassel flower. The flower leans toward the viewer's right and consists of at least eight segments.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Corn, Maize
Flowers
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
frontal view
leaf, marquise, pointed oval
Keywords: 

maize flowers, maíz, flores, men's names, nombres de hombres

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

miyahua(tl), maize tassel-flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miyahuatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Flor de Maíz

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 619r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=320st=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: 

Tomiyauh (MH619r)