Nonohualcatl (MH722r)

Nonohualcatl (MH722r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Nonohualcatl (“Person from Nonohualco”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. He wears a feathered headdress with one large feather and one small. They are attached to a band that is tied at the side of his head.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See below for two other examples of feathered headdresses; yet there are many more possibilities. Also, see below for some examples of other ethnicities.

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

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

tied, bound, or bundled

Keywords:

pueblos, etnicidades, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Nonohualca (plural), one of the important ethnic groups in Tollan (Tula), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nonohualca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Nonohualco, o Nonoalco)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 722r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=522&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:

"t" for d

dropped "h"

Historical Contextualizing Image: