Cuachal (MH747r)

Cuachal (MH747r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuachal is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a frontal view of an unidentifiable shape that looks something like a large paint brush, with bristles upward and handle missing. The bristles are also divided in half, with one group leaning left and one group leaning right. It speaks to something cut in the middle, with a V-shape missing. Along the bottom of what we might imagine to be bristles is a horizontal rectangle.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Obviously, more research is needed to decipher this glyph. When comparing it to the other examples we currently have in the database, one looks much like this one. The other one, however, is a human head, which seems closer to the dictionary term cuachachal, a person with a large head. Cut out of the middle and top of that head is a V-shape. So, this V-shaped cut out is what all three glyphs have in common and may bring something additional to cuachachal or the Cuachal name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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: 
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres

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

cua(itl), head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuaitl
cuachachal, a person with a large head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuachachal
cuachalania, to hit one's head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuachalania
chachalhuia, to crack something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chachalhuia
chalani, to crack or break, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalani

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 747r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=572&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: 
See Also: 

Cuachal (MH537v)

Cuachal (MH598r)

Cuatlapanca (MH812r)

tlapanic (Mdz49r)