ichcatanatli (FCbk8f31v)

ichcatanatli (FCbk8f31v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a basket (ichcatanatli) for storing fibers for weaving, such as cotton and wool, 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 text on the same page. This example shows a yellow, lidded, woven basket (tanatli). Sitting on top is a skein of yarn or thread. While ichcatl is often a reference to a cotton ball or unspun fiber, this skein nevertheless gets the message across for the use of the basket, which could probably store spun or unspun fibers. The skein here is already dyed the color red, too.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This example aligns with a few other records in this digital collection, such as those that show baskets, fibers, animals that were sheared for fiber to weave, and a skein.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

ichcatanatli

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (female)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

red

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

woven

Keywords:

textiles, hilo, hilados, fibras, tejer, rojo

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ichcatana(tli), a basket for storing weaving fibers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ichcatanatli
ichca(tl), unspun cotton or wool, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ichcatl
tana(tli), a woven palm basket, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tanatli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

la canasta para fibras para tejer

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 8: Kings and Lords", fol. 31v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/8/folio/31v/images/0 Accessed 16 August 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.”

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