Cuextecatl (MH592r)

Cuextecatl (MH592r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name and/or ethnicity Cuextecatl (“Huaxtecan or Huastecan Person,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of the partial head of a person (not the tribute payer himself) looking toward the viewer's right. There is just a suggestion of hair on the head, and the visible eye is open, but the focus is on the nose, which has a plug or a ring, some kind of ornamentation that would be typical of the Huaxtec region.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

In the Florentine Codex, it is said that the people of the Huasteca had their "noses pierced like jug handles." [See: the Digital Florentine Codex, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/8/folio/30r.]

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

antonio quextecatl

Gloss Normalization:

Antonio Cuextecatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Foreigners/Others

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Other Cultural Influences:

Huaxtec

Keywords:

ethnicities, etnicidades, warriors, guerreros, Huasteca, nose ornament

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Cuextecatl, a name of a famous person from the Huasteca, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Quextecatl
cuexteca(tl), an ethnicity associated with the Huasteca, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuextecatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cuexteca (un famoso guerrero de la Huasteca)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 592r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=263&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: