Mizquitecatl (MH575v)

Mizquitecatl (MH575v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Mizquitecatl (“Person From Mizquitlan,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a mesquite (mizquitl) tree. The tree has a tall, bare trunk above which appear three branches. Each branch is marked with short horizontal lines suggesting foliage.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The -tecatl ending on the "name" here suggests an affiliation with an altepetl or smaller settlement, hence the idea of the name showing an ethnicity, given that people identified most strongly with the settlement where they were born and grew up.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
horizontal
frontal view
spotted or mottled
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

plants, plantas, bushes, arbustos, trees , árboles

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

mizqui(tl), mesquite bush/tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mizquitl
-tecatl, affiliation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Persona de la Región de Mesquites

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 575v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=230&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).

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