Ichca (MH714r)

Ichca (MH714r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Ichca (“Cotton”), shows a frontal view of a boll of white cotton in a tripartite stem base.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Cotton bolls were spun into thread for weaving. This was women’s work, which may help explain the name being for a woman. The upside-down U’s in the cotton bolls and in the cotton fluff that is being spun on the malacatl (below) may suggest seeds that are often found in the cotton. They also resemble the shapes on land parcels, perhaps suggesting they have been seeded.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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: 
Flowers
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
tripartite
Keywords: 

algodón, nombres de mujeres

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

ichca(tl), unspun cotton, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ichcatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Algodón

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 714r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=506&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: 
"y" for i
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

ichcatl (Mdz40r)

ichcatl (Mdz55r)

ichcatl (Mdz37r)

malacatl (Mdz37r)