Huitztecatl (MH615v)

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

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: 
segmented
pointed (see also spiky)
vertical, upright
triangular
frontal view
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: 
See Also: 

Huitzne (MH626v)

Huitzne (MH628v)