animal
Duck
Duck as an animal people have named and used. Emotional ease, surface and depth — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Nahua tradition
Duck appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records canauhtli in Book 11 bird chapters — named waterfowl among birds. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
appears in · sourced · culturally specific
Duck is historically related to Orange.
In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, hashed wild duck stews the joints in brown gravy with bread crumbs, claret, spices, and a tablespoonful of lemon or Seville orange-juice until gradually hot.
from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861
historically related to · sourced · documented
sources
- Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).
- Book of Household Management · Isabella Beeton
Isabella Beeton, Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861).