Huitztecatl (MH615v)

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing (with a little red paint) of the simplex glyph for the personal name Huitztecatl is attested here as a man's name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

As our Online Nahuatl Dictionary attests, thorns and spines were used in self-bloodletting, and one of the objectives was to get blood onto the spine. This probably explains the red coloring of spines.

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:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering

Religion (Indigenous)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

red

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

pointed (see also spiky)

segmented

triangular

vertical, upright

Keywords:

thorns, espinas, personas, huitztli, nombres de hombres, blood, sangre

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huitz(tli), thorns, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli
-tecatl, person from a place (here, Huitzco), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecatl

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 615v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=313&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image:

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