Chichimeca Tecuhtli (MH690v)

Chichimeca Tecuhtli (MH690v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This example of iconography captures a person with the title of Chichimeca Tecuhtli (“Chichimec Lord”). This is a portrait with no distinguishing features than those of any other lord or ruler in these pages. He wears a white cape with red trim and a diadem with red trim and a mesh pattern. The drawing of the cape includes hatching for a three-dimensional effect. As the contextualizing image shows, he is seated inside the entryway to a building.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Sometimes the iconography for Chichimec lords includes bows and arrows, and sometimes the wearing of hides. Some Chichimecs have face paint in the form of horizontal and vertical lines that intersect.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

filipe chichimecatecuhtli

Gloss Normalization:

Felipe Chichimeca Tecuhtli

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

title/office

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

red

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

checked, cross-hatched, or mesh

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

señores, nobles, Chichimecas, títulos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Chichimeca, the Chichimecs, a non-sedentary people of the North, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chichimeca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Señor Chichimeca

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 690v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=461&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:

"i" for e

Historical Contextualizing Image: