tlatlacotin (FCbk7f16v)

This disturbing iconographic example, featuring a group of four captives or enslaved people (tlatlacotin, or tlatlahcotin, with the glottal stop), 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 what appears to be a family–a mother, father, and two children, all standing, and all wearing the wooden yoke around their necks that is a visual diagnostic of an enslaved person or a captive. The yoke is a rounded collar at the neck with a straight stick attached to the back of the collar. The stick, in this case, could also be a tlacotl, which is a near homonym for tlacotli (enslaved person). The yoke is brown and the stick is yellow. One of the children seems to almost hide behind his mother, and the other stands by the father. The father puts his hand on the head of that child near him in what may be a gesture of affection or a concern to keep the child nearby. The children are not clothed. The mother wears a huipilli (handmade blouse) with a red rectangular patch on the chest and a red pattern along the lower hem. She also wears long loose culotte pants with a red border along the bottom. The man wears a white cape tied over his right shoulder. The fabric of the clothing has folds and shading that give it a three-dimensionality. Shadows appear at their feet.