Cuicanenel (MH532r)

Cuicanenel (MH532r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuicanenel (“He Who Mixes Up Songs,” attested here as a man’s name) shows the tribute payer with speech or song (cuica) scrolls emerging from his mouth. The scrolls are not especially mixed up (neneloa), but that is the suggestion of the gloss.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juan cuicanenel

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Cuicanenel

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)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

verb

visible movement

visible sound

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Movement

Music, Song, Dance

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

volute(s)

Keywords:

sing, song, cantar, canciones, mezclar, mixed up, mezclado

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuica, to sing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuica
neneloa, to mix something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/neneloa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Que Canta Canciones Mezcladas (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 532r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=143&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: