Ecacehuaze (MH880r)

Ecacehuaze (MH880r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yecacehuaze (“Possessor of a Fan”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows what is probably a hand-held fan (yecahuaztli) made of feathers. The -e possessor is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The gloss puts a Y- at the front of this name, which is not unusual to find before words beginning with E-. While the Y- could be a possessive, the -e possessor suffix would make that redundant. Some of these devices were made of feathers, and some were made of flowers. The construction suggests that they were typically hand-held, and they were probably often used in dancing. A scene from the Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco , in our Mapas Project, shows two women dancing while carrying these fans. It also shows men drumming.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

a^ol. yecacehuacē

Gloss Normalization:

Alonso Ecacehuaze

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)

possessive pronoun (no-, to-, i-, etc.)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Gender (male)

Music, Song, Dance

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Keywords:

aventadores, plumas, ecacehuaztli, ehcacehuaztli, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ecacehuaz(tli), a fan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecacehuaztli
-e (possession), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/e-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Tiene Aventador

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 880r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=832&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).

Orthography:

"ç" for z or tz

Historical Contextualizing Image: