tlemaitl (FCbk4f31r)

This is a black-line drawing of iconographic example of the word tlemaitl (hand-held incense burner). The painting shows a man in profile (facing toward the viewer's left) wearing only a loincloth, with long hair down his back, and he is using two hands to hold the ceramic burner. It has a long handle and a large, shallow bowl where incense has been set on fire. Large flames--yellow at the base and red toward the top--are rising up from the burner. Four curls of black smoke appear above the flames. Two speech scrolls also emerge above the man's face. The man's body is a light terracotta color, as is the burner. Some hatch marks on the man's back provide a three-dimensionality that shows European stylistic influence.