tototl (Mdz13r)

tototl (Mdz13r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for the noun tototl has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Tototepec. The tototl is painted a two-tone green. Its eye and beak are yellow. Its legs are white and its feet are green. It stands in profile looking to the viewer's left. The one wing that is visible is raised, as though about to take flight.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood, Xitlali Torres

Colors: 
green (dark)
green (light)
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
Keywords: 

birds, pájaros

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

toto(tl), bird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tototl

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

bird

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 13 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 36 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

See Also: 

Tototepec (Mdz13r)