huilana (MH570v)

huilana (MH570v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

The image for this simplex glyph for the verb huilana, to drag, is shared with the simplex Tehuilan, which names what is being dragged (the stone, tetl). The act of dragging involves a rope or cord (probably a mecatl), which is shown here attached to the rock and in what may be a bird's eye view. The rope or cord seems to be twisted.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Labor Issues
Rope, cord, string, leather ties
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
tied, bound, or bundled
twisted or entwined
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

huilana, to go along dragging, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huilana

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

arrastrar

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 570v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=220&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).

See Also: 

Tehuilan (MH570v)

huilana (MH497v)

huilana (MH513r)

huilana (MH558v)