oceloehuatl (FCbk9fiiv)
This iconographic example, featuring a jaguar skin (oceloehuatl), 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 bird’s eye view of a full animal skin, laid out flat. It includes the tail and claws. It is orange/brown with black spots.
Stephanie Wood
Various animal skins (often, as ehuatl) appear in this collection. See examples below, including two employed as phonetic indicators (e.g., Motenehua, Tlatolehua).
Stephanie Wood
1577
Jeff Haskett-Wood
pieles, animales, jaguares, manchas

oceloehua(tl), jaguar skin or hide, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/oceloehuatl
la piel de jaguar
Stephanie Wood
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 9: The Merchants", fol. iiv, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/9/folio/iiv/images/e63f158d-bd... Accessed 26 August 2025.
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