chinamitl (MH503r)

chinamitl (MH503r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the noun chinamitl (a reed or cane fence or enclosure or a chinampa).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
Keywords: 

cercas, recintos de caña; una pared; una sub-unidad de un altepetl; una chinampa o franja agrícola

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

chinami(tl), agricultural strip or furrow, or a chinampa, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chinamitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

un recinto de caña

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 503r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=83&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).