Archivo: Bodl Arch.Selden.A.1 roll113D frame66

Descripción: Folio 64r from the w:en:Codex Mendoza. Continuation of priestly and military training, in alternating rows: (1) (calmecac) The novice priest paddles his boat, to bring stone for the repair of the temple called 'house of mist'. On the right, the Spanish caption reads ‘novice priest goes with the senior priest to war, carrying his gear’, though the figures lack the blood-smear and hairstyle characteristic of priests. (2) (telpochcalli) A high-ranking lord wearing a turquoise diadem, with his assistant on the left, supervises the repair of streets and bridges leading to a 'Temple of women' (i.e. of deified souls of women who had died in childbirth). The remaining scenes on this page depict seven stages in the career of a successful telpochcalli warrior, earned through captives and marked by gradations of costume and equipment: (second row, far right) A one-captive warrior, entitled to a flowered cape. (3) (left) A two-captive warrior: cuextecal costume with cone-shaped cap, and orange cape with red border; (middle) a three-captive warrior: quilted armour with a butterfly back device, and cape decorated with the wind ornament design; (right) a four-captive warrior: jaguar costume with animal-head helmet and cuexyo shield, and diagonally-divided cape. (4) (left) A five-captive warrior: Otomi warrior with distinctive hairstyle and green costume; (middle) a six-captive warrior, designated Quachic, 'the shorn one', wearing an undecorated yellow feather bodysuit with distinctive back device, and a xicalcoliuhqui shield; (right) a seven-captive warrior: Tlacatecatl, the Commanding General, wearing a red cape with tenixyo border and a headband decorated with two quetzal feather tassels. Shelfmark: MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1
Título: Bodl Arch.Selden.A.1 roll113D frame66
Créditos: The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Autor(a): DesconocidoUnknown author
Términos de Uso: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Licencia: CC BY 4.0
Enlace de Licencia: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
¿Se exige la atribución?: Sí