tlatlama (FCbk10f58v)
This iconographic example, featuring the verb “to fish” (tlatlama), 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 preceding (58r) the image the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a man in profile, wearing only a loincloth, standing in a canoe, facing toward the viewer’s left. In his left hand he holds a paddle, and in his right hand he holds onto the wooden handle of a large net attached to a hoop. A large fish is visible in the net. The net is at least as long as the man is tall.
Stephanie Wood
The technology of the fishing net seems fairly standard across this digital collection. Sometimes a fishing pole and line were also used; these may reflect European cultural influence. Some examples appear below.
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tlatlama
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1577
Jeff Haskett-Wood
pez, peces, canoas, pescador, pescadores, red, redes, madera, malla, paleta, paletas
tlatlama, to hunt or fish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatlama
pescar
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Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 58v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/58v/images/0 Accessed 10 September 2025.
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