zoquichiuhqui (FCbk10f60r)

This iconographic example, featuring a clay worker (zoquichiuhqui, or zoquichiuhque in the plural), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the Nahuatl text on the previous page in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a man in a ¾ view, dressed in a Spanish-style shirt and trousers, and wearing a Spanish-style hat. But, on top of his other clothes, this man also wears a Nahua cloak (tilmatli) tied near his neck. His feet are bare, and he sits on a low, woven seat (perhaps an icpalli). In his right hand, he holds a pointed stick, a tool that he likely uses in shaping the pottery he is making. Several of his creations appear on the grass around him, including the three-legged sauce bowl (molcaxitl), a cup with a stem (tecomatl) and one without (xicalli), and a large-handled jug (probably a huicolli or a xoctli). Some of these terms come from the keywording in the DFC. Back behind these objects is a large kiln, probably made of adobe bricks, with an arched opening, and with flames and smoke emerging from it. The kiln, clothing, pottery objects, etc., are all shaded, giving them three-dimensionality, showing influence on the tlacuilo from European artistic traditions.