Cachua (MH694v)

Cachua (MH694v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cachua (pronounced Cac-hua, and meaning) is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a sandal or shoe where the heel is covered but the toes would be bare. It has a strap that would go around the front of the ankle and attach. It may be of leather, but no color is apparent here.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The possession of shoes would carry some status, as it was largely the elite that wore cactli. Sometimes shoes were decorated with metal, gems, or jaguar skins. [See: Barbara A. Somervill, Empire of the Aztecs (2009, 100).] As shown in the examples below, sometimes the back of the sandal was a solid piece of leather, whereas this one is woven. Also, the examples from the Codex Mendoza suggest that the ankle tie was a leather strap dyed red.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego cacva

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Cachua

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
tied, bound, or bundled
Keywords: 

zapatos, cacles, sandalias, huaraches, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

cac(tli), shoes, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cactli
-hua, possession, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Poseedor de Zapatos

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 694v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=469&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).

Orthography: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cachua (MH497r)

cactli (Mdz13r)

Caczoc (MH493r)

xo (Mdz41r)

caczoqui (MH593v)