huehue (Mdz42r)

huehue (Mdz42r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for an elder (huehueh) also stands for the place name, Huehuetlan. It is the head of a wispy-haired, white-haired, wrinkled man, who is looking to our right. His mouth is slightly open, which reveals that he has some missing teeth.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The hair color, wrinkles, and missing teeth are all a testimony to his age.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Aging (People, Animals, Things)
Appearance
Gender (male)
Mouth/Beak Open
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
wrinkles
Keywords: 

huehue, elders, huehuetqueh, vejez, edades, viejos

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

huehueh, an old man, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huehue-0

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

old man

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el viejo o el anciano

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 42 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 94 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

Phonetic Reading (comment): 

huēhueh (Karttunen, 1992, 84)

See Also: 

huehue (Mdz47r)

Huehue (MH496r)

Huehue (MH499r)

Huehue (MH608r)

Huehue (MH750r)