tlamatque (MH643r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the occupation of healers (tlamatque, which is tlamatqui in the singular) shows a vessel with two small curved handles, one on each side. Hatch marks inside the wide opening suggest that it has contents, perhaps medicine. The side of the vessel (which would probably be ceramic) shows horizontal lines for shading, giving it a three-dimensionality.
Stephanie Wood
The contextualizing image shows that at least two men held this occupation.
tlamatgue
tlamatque
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
medicinas, pahtli, patli, oficios, curandero, curandera, médicos, doctores
tlamatqui, healer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamatqui
los curanderos
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 643r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=368&st=image
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