Mamaz (MH519r)

Mamaz (MH519r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mamaz ("Soft Feather") shows an upright feather (mamaztli), apparently soft and light in color. The name is attested here as a man's name. Mamaz could also translate as "Quill with Plume."

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

John Bierhorst says the mamaztli was usually a flight feather from a large bird. [See his A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos, 1985, 198.] According to Pilar Maynez (in El Calepino de Sahagún, 2014), the mamaztli could also be a group ('juego') of eagle feathers. She probably refers to the cuauhmamaztli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo mamaz

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Mamaz

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Feathers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Keywords: 

feathers, plumas, quills

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

mamaz(tli), a soft feather, a quill with plume, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mamaztli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 519r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=117&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: 

Tlapalihuitl (MH509r)

Toztli Icuil (MH498v)

chamolli (MH484v)

Ayocuan (MH493r)

Mamaz (MH784v)

Mamaz (MH776v)