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:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juā
chichimecatl

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Chichimecatl

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:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Face Paint or Tattoos

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: