Huehue (MH719r)

Huehue (MH719r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name Huehue (perhaps inferring “Veteran”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph is an upright arrow (mitl) or crossbow bolt (tlaxichtli) with a barbed point at the lower end and a feather at the top.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is not an expected glyph for huehue (elder) and definitely not for huehuetl (drum). The arrow could have a semantic reading that suggests that this elder was a veteran warrior, or perhaps an ancestor who was good with a bow and arrow (such as a Chichimec).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Aging (People, Animals, Things)
Feathers
Gender (male)
Hunting and Fishing
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
pointed (see also spiky)
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

viejo, tambor, atabal, flecha, nombres de hombres

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

huehue, an elder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huehue-0
-huehue, old, patrimonial, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huehue
huehue(tl), upright drum, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huehuetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Veterano

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 719r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=516&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: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Huehue (MH499r)

Huehue (MH608r)

Huehue (MH639r)

Huehue (MH750r)

huehuetl (MH508r)