Cuachcal (MH717r)

Cuachcal (MH717r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name, Cuachcal (“Canopy”), is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows what is presumably a four-posted structure covered on the top and sides with fabric. The cloth does not reach all the way to the ground, but perhaps two-thirds of the way down from the top. The cloth as lines that give it a three-dimensionality.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

While it is reasonable to equate this canopy with a kind of building or house, it is also the case that calli, as an element, does not have to appear in relation to something that is a house or building. See, for example, the glyph for the name Mical (a quiver), below.

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: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

tela, madera, pabellón, nombres de hombres

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

cuachcal(li), a canopy for a special event or a bed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuachcalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Pabellón

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 717r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=512&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: 
"q" for c
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

cuachtli (Mdz30r)

Mical (MH524r)