huilana (MH570v)

huilana (MH570v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

The image for this element, the verb huilana, to drag, is shared with the compound 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
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)