cacahuanamacac (FCbk10f46v)

This iconographic example, featuring a cacao seller (cacahuanamacac), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text on the page prior to the one with the image the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a man in a ¾ view, facing toward the viewer’s right, looking at a large sack of cacao (probably pods, as they are too large to be beans). He wears a white shirt and trousers (European-type clothing), plus a Nahua cloak (tilmatli or tilmahtli) tied over his right shoulder. He sits on a low white seat of some kind. Both his clothing and the sack for the cacao are white with shading that gives them a three-dimensionality (showing European artistic influence). The man and the cacao that he is selling are on a ground of green grass (another European artistic tradition). Two woven mats (petlatl) are discernible on this ground, and they were probably meant to be painted yellow.