cacahuatl chicuetlamamalli (Osu37r)

cacahuatl chicuetlamamalli (Osu37r)
Compound Hieroglyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted compound Nahuatl hieroglyph consists of a group of eight loads (chicuei tlamamalli) of cacao (cacahuatl). The notation for eight is simply the appearance of eight items in two rows of four. Each one is a vertical white sack tied at the top, with gathering and shading that gives it a three-dimensionality. Tied around the base of each load is a tumpline with a somewhat wide strap made to go around a human head. The load would be carried on someone's back, with the tumpline on the forehead. One cacao bean sticks out of the top of each sack, pointing to its contents.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Cacao is the source of chocolate, a valuable commodity used primarily at that time for making a hot beverage that was consumed by the elite. The verb mama (to carry) was the root for tlamama (to bear something) and tlamamalli (a load or burden). Cacao came from the hotlands, such as the town that is now Soconusco (derived from Xoconochco).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

y~ cacahuatl. chicuetlamamalli.

Gloss/Text Normalization:

in cacahuatl chicuetlamamalli

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Osuna, Codex (Osu)

Date of Manuscript:

1551–1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Food, Eating, Cooking

Names (places)

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Shoes, Regalia

Transportation, Travel, Roads

Tributes, Taxation, Service

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

three-dimensionality

tied, bound, or bundled

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

carga, cargas, cargar, tributo, tributos, transporte, número, números

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cacahua(tl), cacao, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cacahuatl
tlamamal(li), a load, a burden, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamamalli
chicuei, eight, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicuei

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

ocho cargas de cacao

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Image Source, Rights:

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Orthography:

"y" for i

intrusive period

Historical Contextualizing Image: