Chichimeca (MH597r)

Chichimeca (MH597r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Chichimec (here, belonging toa man) shows a profile view of a man's face looking toward the reader's right. His face as intersecting (four) horizontal and (two) vertical black lines painted (or possibly tattooed) on it, creating a mesh pattern.

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Face Paint or Tattoos

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

right angle(s)

vertical, upright

checked, cross-hatched, or mesh

profile view

horizontal

facing right

Keywords:

Chichimecas, pintura en la cara, etnicidades,guerreros, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Chichimeca, an ethnicity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Chichimeca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Chichimeca

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 597r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=273st=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: