Cihuacuitlapil (MH605r)

Cihuacuitlapil (MH605r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the personal name Cihuacuitlapil ("Woman-Tail"), attested here as pertaining to a man, shows the head of a woman (cihuatl) looking toward the viewer's right. Behind her head is a curving tail (cuitlapilli), stretching out the other direction. The woman's hair is styled in the classic way that says "woman," but beyond that, one can see the v-neck of her blouse and the top of the reinforcing rectangle (called a pechero in Spanish today according Ofelia Morales).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

ciuacuitlapil

Gloss Normalization: 

Cihuacuitlapil

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: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (female)
Gender (male)
Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
right to left
Keywords: 

mujeres, colas, nombres de hombres

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

cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
cuitlapil(li), tail, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuitlapilli

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 120) refers to the name Cihuacuitlapil, witnessed in a census from the Cuernavaca region (1535–45), calling it "Woman's Tail."

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Mujer-Cola

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 605r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=292st=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: 
See Also: 

cuitlapilli (MH605r)