Chichimecatl (MH735r)

Chichimecatl (MH735r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

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.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

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.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres, pintura en la cara, etnicidades, Chichimecas, arco y flecha

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

Chichimecatl, a Chichimeca, Indigenous person from the North, ancestor of the Mexica, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chichimecatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

(una persona Chichimeca)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 735r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=548&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).

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