Camisa (MH725r)

Camisa (MH725r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Camisa (“Shirt”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a frontal view of a man’s shirt (camisa in Spanish, which entered Nahuatl as a loanword). The perspective is almost a ¾ view, as the shirt turns slightly to the right. The right sleeve is bent and the left sleeve reaches forward, as though the shirt is actually being worn and the person is in motion.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This name appears in other glyphs in this digital collection. It was not unusual for Nahuas to take on the wearing of imported garments or to have personal names that refer to garments. Women were sometimes called “skirts” (cueitl).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

camisas, ropa importada, ropa Europea, nombres de hombres

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

camisa, shirt (a loanword from Spanish), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/camisa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Camisa

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 725r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=528&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: 
"ss" for s
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Camisa (MH498r)