Miquiyahuaca (MH827r)

Miquiyahuaca (MH827r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Miquiyahuaca (“The People of Miquiyahuacan”), is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph shows a frontal view of what may be an entrance to an architectural structure. What may be four downy feather balls are crowded into the interior space of the entrance.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

We invite suggestions for this glyph, which is a challenge to interpret. It may turn out to be a compound glyph.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā miquiyavaca

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Miquiyahuaca

Gloss 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)
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Death, decay, decomposition
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

etnicidades, la muerte, nombres de lugares, nombres de hombres

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

-huacan (locative suffix), possession + where that happens, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huacan
miqui, to die, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Gente de Miquiyahuacan

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 827r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=728&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: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: