ehuatl (MH613v)

ehuatl (MH613v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is the black-line drawing of a glyphic element for the noun ehuatl (a hide) that was extracted from a compound glyph for the personal name Tlatolehuatl. It played a phonetic role in that compound, but here we are counting it as a logogram. It is a bird's eye view of a hide that has been laid out. The starts of legs are still visible, along with the head or neck, and the tail. The coat is textured.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Hunting and Fishing
Leather, hides
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
facing upward
frontal view
spotted or mottled
Keywords: 

pieles, skins, hides

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

ehua(tl), skin-hide, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehuatl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 613r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=309st=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).

See Also: 

Tlatolehua (MH613v)

ehuatl (Mdz40r)