Chachalaca (MH541v)

Chachalaca (MH541v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This white and yellow drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Chachalaca ("He Chatters"), is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a bird's head in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. Its head feathers are white, and its hooked beak is yellow. About six white speech scrolls emerge from its mouth, all emerging outward but curling under at the ends.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

In the glyph for Chachalacatl, below, the chatterbox is a person who speaks a lot, jabbers, or chatters. Chalan

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

doribiochachalaca

Gloss Normalization:

Toribio Chachalaca

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood & Jeff Haskett-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:

phrase or sentence

verb

visible sound

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

white/neutral

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

volute(s)

Keywords:

nombres de hombres, feathers, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chachalaca, to chatter like a bird or to gossip, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chachalaca-0

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 541v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=162&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: