ichcatl (CST47)
This painting of the simplex glyph for the term ichcatl (sheep) shows the animal in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. Its body is gray, horns white, and hooves black. Its tail nearly reaches the ground. The animal’s coat is textured.
Stephanie Wood
The gloss for ichcatl is given in the plural (ichcame), because many sheep were raised by Santa Catalina Texupan. But they were raised for their wool (also ichcatl). Selling wool and cheese brought the town 205 pesos of income in 1561.These products were introduced to this hemisphere by way of Spanish colonialism. For more on the Codex Sierra, see Kevin Terraciano’s study (2021). Ichcatl was also a term used for cotton wool. Both cotton wool and sheep’s wool were spun on spindles, depending upon the local resources.
Stephanie Wood
1550–1564
Jeff Haskett-Wood
ovejas, lana, ganado ovino, ventas, comercio, economía, textiles
ichca(tl), sheep, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ichcatl
oveja
Stephanie Wood
Códice Sierra-Texupan, plate 47, page dated 1561. Origin: Santa Catalina Texupan, Mixteca Alta, State of Oaxaca. Kevin Terraciano has published an outstanding study of this manuscript (Codex Sierra, 2021), and in his book he refers to alphabetic and “pictorial” writing, not hieroglyphic writing. We are still counting some of the imagery from this source as hieroglyphic writing, but we are also including examples of “iconography” where the images verge on European style illustrations or scenes showing activities. We have this iconography category so that such images can be fruitfully compared with hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphic writing was evolving as a result of the influence of European illustrations, and even alphabetic writing impacted it.
https://bidilaf.buap.mx/objeto.xql?id=48281&busqueda=Texupan&action=search
The Biblioteca Digital Lafragua of the Biblioteca Histórica José María Lafragua in Puebla, Mexico, publishes this Códice Sierra-Texupan, 1550–1564 (62pp., 30.7 x 21.8 cm.), referring to it as being in the “Public Domain.” This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the Biblioteca Digital Lafragua and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
