Chiancoyotl (MH884r)

Chiancoyotl (MH884r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Chiancoyotl (literally, “Chia-Coyote”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a coyote (coyotl) in profile, facing the viewer’s right. Two sprigs or blossoms of a chia (chian) plant come out of the top of this head.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Many chian glyphs involve black dots, but this one seems to focus on the flowers. The relationship between the coyote and chia remains to be elucidated further.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

p. chiācoyotl

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Chiancoyotl

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

chia, coyotes, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chian, a food plant whose seeds produce oil, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chian
coyo(tl), a coyote, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

literalmente, Chia-Coyote

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 884r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=840&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: