Cuetlan (MH877r)

Cuetlan (MH877r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuetlan (perhaps “Broken Long Stick”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the body of a nude, standing man, in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. He has thin arms and legs, lacking hands and feet. At about his waist a horizontal section of his body is missing. His visible eye is closed, which suggests that he is dead.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The other two glyphs we have for Cuetlan show tall, thin sticks that are broken at the midpoint. Here, we have what may be a tall thin man who is broken in the middle–apparently as a way of making an association between the human body and the cuetlan of broken sticks.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

domīgo cuetlā

Gloss Normalization: 

Domingo Cuetlan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie 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)
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Nudity
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

sticks, palos, madera, vertical, estrecho, nombres de hombres

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

cuetlania, to break sticks or other long things, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuetlania

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Palo Largo y Quebrado

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 877r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=826&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: 

Cuetlan (MH624r)

Cuetlan (MH832v)

Cuetlan (MH873v)