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). Chinamitl has various definitions, from fence, to a structure made of fencing materials, to a sub-division of a settlement, to an agricultural strip. Here, the glyph supports the concept of a fence.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See our Online Nahuatl Dictionary entry for chinamitl, where attestations of the use of the term appear in groupings that represent the various definitions. I suspect that the agricultural strip that was called chinampa (the root of chinamitl plus -pa, toward, or -pan, on) involved the use of fencing material to shore up piles of lakebed mud, which explains the term's derivation.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Land Parcels, Use, Issues

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

woven

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).