tlauhquechol (FCbk11f20v)
This iconographic example, featuring a bird called the roseate spoonbill (tlauhquechol or tlauhquecholli; also known as teoquechol), 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. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a red bird in profile, facing right, and holding a fish in its bill. Its bill, eye, legs, and feet are all yellow. The face, tail, and wing feathers are a lighter red or a pink, while the body has dark red feathers. The bird is set in a landscape, which shows European artistic influences.
Stephanie Wood
In this digital collection, as of October 2025, there is one tlauhquechol hieroglyph, and it is for a personal name. Many of these name glyphs were black and white, but this one is painted red, aligning with the name “roseate,” but the bill is not spoon-like in that example. See also the simple name Quechol, which shows the head of a red bird.
Stephanie Wood
Tlauhquechol
tlauhquechol
Stephanie Wood
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Jeff Haskett-Wood
pájaros, pluma, plumas, rojo, rosa, rojillo, espátulas rosadas, ave, aves
tlauhquechol, a bird, the roseate spoonbill, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlauhquechol
el pájaro, la espátula rosada
Stephanie Wood
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 20v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/20v/images/0 Accessed 7 October 2025.
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