Mihua (MH527r)

Mihua (MH527r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mihua ("Possessor of Arrows," here, attested as a man’s name) shows a vertical arrow (mitl) with the point down. The arrow is decorated with feathers, very typical. The -hua possessive suffix is not shown visually in this glyph.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 120) agrees with the translation "Possessor of Arrows." He categorizes this name as "martial." The example he found of it is in the censuses of the Cuernavaca region, 1535–1545.

Not all arrows have added obsidian points as this one does.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego. mihuā

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Mihua

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Feathers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Daniel Chayet

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
pointed (see also spiky)
vertical, upright
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

mihua, a possessor of arrows, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mihua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Poseedor de Flechas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 527r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=133&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: 

mitl (Mdz23r)

mitl (Mdz42r)