Chacal (MH810v)

Chacal (MH810v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chacalin (“Shrimp”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a profile view of what looks like a bug with three visible legs and two antennae. Its head is upward but looking toward the viewer’s right. The body has diagonal lines that give it something of a three-dimensionality.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See two other examples of a chacalin, below. One resembles a fish.

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: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
three-dimensionality
vertical, upright
profile view
facing upward
facing right
Keywords: 

bichos, camarones, nombres de hombres

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

chacal(in), shrimp, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chacalin
Chacalin, a personal name, somewhat known in Michoacan and Coyoacan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chacalin-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Camarón

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 810v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=695&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: 
See Also: 

Chacal (MH544r)

chacalin (MH497v)