Cuaoton (MH553r)

Cuaoton (MH553r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuaoton (“Head of an Otomí,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view (looking right) of the head of a man with face paint or tattooing involving intersecting vertical and horizontal lines at right angles. The hair on his head is shaggy, and he may be wearing a horizontal head band.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

In this digital collection, face paint or tattooing has ethnic associations, involving Chichimecs, the Otomí, the Tlaxcalteca, and those who were “different” (e.g. the Tlamaca). Divine forces, such as Ecatl (or Ehecatl) and Xolotl, also have some face paint or tattoos.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
diminutive (in gloss/text)
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Face Paint or Tattoos
Foreigners/Others
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Other Cultural Influences: 
Otomí
Keywords: 

heads, cabezas, otomies, otomites, otomíes, ethnicities, etnicidades

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

cua-, head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua-2
cua(itl), the head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuaitl
Otomi(tl), a culture group, ethnicity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/otomitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Cabeza del Otomí

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 533r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=185&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: 

Otonmani (MH560r)

Otomitl (Mdz3v)

otomitl (Mdz64r)

Texolohua (MH553r)