Cuicani (MH577r)

Cuicani (MH577r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuicani (“Singer,” attested here as a man’s name) shows song scrolls emerging from the tribute payer's mouth. There are four scrolls, two curling upward and two down. They are emerging in the direction of the viewer's right.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

While this glyph and its gloss are in the usual locations for the man's name, one could also imagine that being a singer is his occupation.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

paldrome.Cuicani

Gloss Normalization: 

Bartolomé Cuicani

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)
visible sound
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
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: 

music, música, songs, canciones, singers, cantantes, volutas

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

cuicani, singer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuicani

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Cantante

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 577r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=233&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: 

cuicani (Mdz43r)

cuicani (Mdz70r)

cuicani (FCbk1p47)