Chichimecatl (MH735r)
This is a black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Chichimecatl (“A Chichimec”). The glyph consists of a man’s head in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. The man’s cheek has a thick black vertical line that intersects half way with a shorter horizontal line. Other, thinner lines intersect with these to form something of a grid pattern.
Stephanie Wood
When comparing this glyph to other Chichimec-related glyphs, one will notice two things especially, the grid-like face paint and the way the bow and arrow represents an ethnicity.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
nombres de hombres, pintura en la cara, etnicidades, Chichimecas, arco y flecha
Chichimecatl, a Chichimeca, Indigenous person from the North, ancestor of the Mexica, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chichimecatl
(una persona Chichimeca)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 735r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=548&st=image
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