cuacuauhtlaxinqui (MH884r)

cuacuauhtlaxinqui (MH884r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the occupation cuacuauhtlaxinqui (perhaps “Woodcutter”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph shows what appears to be a spear or lance, with a long probably wooden handle and perhaps an obsidian or metal point attached at the end. Perhaps this long tool would have been used to trimming branches from trees.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

There is nothing obvious in this hieroglyph to suggest that the occupation relates to horned animals (cuacuauhue) or the horns themselves (cuacuahuitl). The start to the occupation, “cuacuauh,” can relate wood just as easily as to horned livestock, as a scan of the vocabulary in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary that comes from a search in the Headword for anything that starts with “cuacuauh” will show. A search for the noun tlaxinqui will produce tools for woodcutting.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

cuacuauhtlaxq—--

Gloss Normalization:

cuacuauhtlaxinqui

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax:

noun(s)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Occupations

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

pointed (see also spiky)

profile view

Keywords:

madera, oficios, trabajo, carpinteros

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlaxinqui, carpenter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaxinqui
cuahu(itl), wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl-1
cuacuauhqui, a woodcutter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuacuauhqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el leñador

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 884r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=840&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: