Cuicamana (MH542v)

Cuicamana (MH542v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing with added red paint is the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuicamana ("He Gives Concerts" or "He Sings Songs"). It is attested as a man's name. The glyph shows a frontal view of an upright drum (huehuetl) with three visible round feet and a horizontal red stripe at the top edge. A hand appears to be beating the drum, and four small volutes (like speech scrolls) emerge off the right side of the top of the drum, suggesting singing (cuica) and/or drum sounds.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo cuicamana

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Cuicamana

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
verb
visible sound
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Music, Song, Dance
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
volute(s)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
4
Keywords: 

drums, tambores, sing, cantar, verbos, nombres de hombres

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

cuicamana, to sing songs or give concerts, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuicamana
cuica, to sing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuica
mana, to lay things out, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mana
ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 542v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=164&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).

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