tlahuitolli (FCbk6ff214r)

tlahuitolli (FCbk6ff214r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a bow (tlahuitolli) for shooting arrows, 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 bow that was lying on the ground with four javelins (tlacochtli). In the contextualizing image, the bow and projectiles are associated with a Chichimecatl, a man of the northern semi-sedentary region of Mesoamerica. The bow has a wide U-shape. A string attaches to the two ends of the bow. These ends bend outward a bit.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Bows and arrows are classic symbols for a Chichimecatl person and for the people of the northern region, in general.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Hunting and Fishing

War or Conflict

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing upward

profile view

U-shapes (any direction)

Keywords:

arcos, flechas, jabelinas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlahuitol(li), a bow (for arrows), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuitolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el arco para tirar

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 6: Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy", fol. 214r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/6/folio/214r/images/0 Accessed 10 July 2025.

Image Source, Rights:

Images of the digitized Florentine Codex are made available under the following Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International). For print-publication quality photos, please contact the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ([email protected]). The Library of Congress has also published this manuscript, using the images of the World Digital Library copy. “The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection. Absent any such restrictions, these materials are free to use and reuse.”

Historical Contextualizing Image: