tlaxinqui (FCbk6f187v)
This iconographic example, featuring a carpenter (tlaxinqui) at work is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making potential comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the keywords chosen by the team behind the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss. This example shows a man standing over a work bench, planing a plank. He stands leaning and in a profile position, wearing a tunic over trousers (European-style clothing). Folds in the fabric and shading give his clothing a three-dimensionality. A board (huapalli) already prepared lies on the ground, surrounded by curling wood shavings.
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The companion text does not refer directly to the term tlaxinqui, but it does refer to cuauhxincayotl (given as quauhxincaiotl). While the tool with which this carpenter works is not visible, the hieroglyphs for the occupation of tlaxinqui –and apparently the personal name of Tlaxinqui–are all showing a hatchet or axe, typically with a copper head (colored red), a wooden handle, and a tie to secure the two together. See examples below.
Stephanie Wood
1577
Jeff Haskett-Wood
tablón, tablero, tablones, tableros, madera carpintero, huapalli
tlaxinqui, a carpenter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaxinqui
cuauhxincayotl, the occupation of carpentry, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhxincayotl
el carpintero
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Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 6: Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy", fol. 187v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/6/folio/187v/images/d15c6734-c... Accessed 7 July 2025.
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