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

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
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
facing right
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
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: 

Otomitl (Mdz3v)

otomitl (Mdz64r)

Texolohua (MH553r)