f. 18v., head of founding genealogy figure

This is the head of the person described as a “Tepotzoteca.” He has a series of short feathers that make up a headdress above his brow. His hair comes to his shoulders and is painted a dark gray color. His skin is painted brown. His eyelid has a fold between the eye (which is open) and the brow. It is unusual to have a deceased person with eyes open in older Nahuatl iconography, which suggests that technique was no longer known at the time this pictorial was made. [SW]