Chimalcueyo (MH643r)

Chimalcueyo (MH643r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for Chimalcueyo ("War Shield" of a certain design, attested here as a man's name) shows a round shield with a concentric circle that creates a border. Inside the border is a quincunx shape with four curves and a small circle in the middle. Feathers hang from the bottom of the shield, and squiggly lines of a vague scalloped shape appear on the top.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

"Cueyo" is not quite the same shield design as "cuexyo." This is perhaps a less common design, but it compares favorably to the shields in the glyphs Chimalhuilan and Chimalcozauh, below.

This may be a war shield of the ihuiteteyo design, discussed by Frances Berdan and Patricia Anawalt (The Codex Mendoza, 1992, vol. 1, Appendix G). It can come in different colors. Sometimes the symbols on this design are taken for shells. An article by Ian Mursell in Mexicolore and citing the same authors, reminds us that they are down balls, which have associations with death. He also paraphrases John Pohl, saying that the war shield was very personal, it "represented the warrior’s soul, and would generally be burned at the funeral of a dead man." We also learn from The Codex Mendoza: New Insights (2022, 24), that "the tlacuiloque drew and painted a total of eleven ihuiteteyo, one for each one of the rulers of the city."

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Ju^o chimalcueyo

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Chimalcueyo

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Gender (male)

War or Conflict

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

quincunx or quatrefoil

Keywords:

rodelas, escudos, guerra, guerreros, diseños, nombres de hombres, feathers, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chimal(li), war sheild, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli
cuexyo, a war shield design, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuexyo

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Rodela o Escudo (de cierto diseño)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 643r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=368&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:

dropped "x"

Historical Contextualizing Image: