Huilan (MH509r)

Huilan (MH509r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Huilan (here, attested as a man's name) shows a seated, naked man or youth in profile facing toward the viewer's right. His knees are bent, but not as tightly as the usual male pose for seated lords. His arms are raised in front of his body.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The gloss suggests a verb, huilana, to drag something or crawl on all fours. Perhaps this naked individual is a baby that has not yet learned to walk, and therefore it is sitting. It could be dragging its bottom along the floor or ground (not pictured here). If the individual is being dragged, this is not obvious for lack of another person or animal that would be dragging this one. The glyph for the name Tlahuilan, referencing the verb tlahuilana, to drag something, provides a different example, that of a wooden beam that would be dragged by a rope.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

thomas
huillan

Gloss Normalization: 

Tomás Huilan

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: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Body postures
Children, Childhood, Adolescence
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Nudity
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

dragging, arrastrando, gateando, crawling, bebés, nombres de hombres

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

huilana, to drag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huilana

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Arrastrar

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 509r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=97&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: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlahuilan (MH513r)

Tenapalo (MH551r)