macuiltecpanpixqui (MH642v)

macuiltecpanpixqui (MH642v)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph (or example of iconography) for macuiltecpanpixqui ("guardian of five twenties" or "guardian of one hundred" tribute payer) shows a man standing in profile, facing the viewer's left. He is fully dress in a combined Indigenous (the cape, tilmatli) and European style (pants to the knees and a shirt with long sleeves). In his right hand, he holds up five (macuilli) rectangular white flags, each one representing the twenty (tecpantli) tribute payers. The word for flag (panitl, or pamitl) provides the phonetic indicator "pan" for the reading -tecpantli (twenty).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Different numbers of tribute payers were entrusted to guardians who oversaw the collection of tributes from neighborhoods. This one was in charge of one hundred, whereas others (such as the centecpanpixque or simply the tecpanpixque) attended to twenty each.

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

numbers

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as phonogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Tributes, Taxation, Service

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

profile view

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

tributos, guardianes, banderas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

macuiltecpanpixqui, a keeper of a hundred (tribute payers),
https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuiltecpanpixqui
centecpanpia, to guard twenty tribute payers,
https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centecpanpia
centecpanpixqui, a guardian overseeing twenty tribute payers,
https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centecpanpixqui
tecpan(tli), twenty, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpantli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

guardián de cien tributarios

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 642v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=367&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: