Acachinan (MH503r)

Acachinan (MH503r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Acachinan ("Reed-Chinampa," attested here as a man’s name) shows a square that is probably a fence panel, a (chinamitl). It is filled with a mesh that is criss-crossing canes or reeds (acatl), something like bamboo or carrizo, a type of cane in Mexico. These reeds are at an angle, and they are segmented.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The reed construction is likely in place to reinforce the sides of an agricultural plot that is made from dredging mud from canals and piling it up.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juan
acachinā

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Acachinan

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

checked, cross-hatched, or mesh

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

agriculture, agricultura, chinampas, estructura, construcción, cañas, carrizo

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

aca(tl), reed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
chinam(itl), a reed enclosure or fence, sometimes part of an agricultural construction known in Spanish as chinampa, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chinamitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Caña-Chinampa

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 503r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=83&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Historical Contextualizing Image: