Cuauhtlapeuhcatl (MH687v)

Cuauhtlapeuhcatl (MH687v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Cuauhtlapeuhcatl (perhaps “Someone from Cuauhtlapeuhco,” attested here as a man’s name) shows the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) looking toward the viewer’s right. The eagle's eye and beak are open, and the feathers on its head are spiky. Below the eagle's head is apparently a hunting trap (tlapehualli) made from wood (cuahuitl). Another possibility is that it is some type of plow, given that the verb tlapehua means "to plow land."

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See the glyphs for the name Cuauhtlapeuh (perhaps, “Eagle Hunting Trap) from this same manuscript (below). They all show the head of an eagle along with perhaps a trap, hook, or net used for hunting–perhaps for hunting eagles, unless the eagle appears in some to provide a phonetic indicator for wood (cuahuitl, a near homonym for cuauhtli, eagle). The various devices for hunting could well be made of wood, with the exception of the net, unless it had a long wooden handle.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juā quauhtlapeuhcatl

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Cuauhtlapeuhcatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood & Jeff Haskett-Wood

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:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Hunting and Fishing

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

arados, trampas, cazar, águilas, nombres de hombres, feathers, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
cuahui(tl), tree, wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl
tlapehua, to plow land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapehua
tlapehual(li), a trap for hunting, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapehualli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Persona de Cuauhtlapeuhco

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 687v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=455&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: