Chamol (MH648r)

Chamol (MH648r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This colorful simplex glyph for the personal name Chamol ("Scarlet Parrot Feathers") shows a frontal view of two feathers, colored red but leaving the shaft or calamus white. One is fairly straight up, and the one on the right leans at an angle.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Mateo Chamol was a tecpanpixqui, a guardian of twenty tribute payers, as noted in the gloss. The "c" and the "n" were both dropped in the spelling of the occupation name, but other examples in the census help clarify the intended meaning. This collection is tracking such orthographic characteristics.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

matheo chamol tepapixqui

Gloss Normalization: 

Mateo Chamol, tecpanpixqui

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
reduplication (visual)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
leaf, marquise, pointed oval
frontal view
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

feathers, plumas rojas, pájaros, loros, animales, nombres de hombres

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

chamol(li), scarlet parrot feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chamolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Plumas Rojas de Loros

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 648r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=378&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: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
dropped "c"
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Chamol (MH484v)

Chamol (MH630v)

Chamolmani (MH490v)