ayohuachtli (FCbk10f49v)

This iconographic example, featuring pumpkin seeds (ayohuachtli, or ayohhuachtli with the glottal stop), 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 near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. Anderson and Dibble’s translation was “gourd seeds,” but the DFC keywording team gives “pumpkin seeds.” There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a group of seeds, a black-line drawing of a cluster of oval shapes painted gray. The contextualizing image shows six piles of these seeds on a cloth (probably a cuachtli) where the young woman sits who is selling them (the ayochnamacac). Because her hair is long and loose, she is probably unmarried. Behind her back is a large woven container with a lid (probably a petlacalli), which must be where she would have had her seeds in storage for the purpose of bringing them to the market (tianquiztli) to sell.