Oyohual (MH499r)

Oyohual (MH499r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Oyohual ("Jingle Bells," attested as a man's name) shows a frontal view of a curving string with four jingle bells (oyohualli) that were typically tied to legs for dancing. Warriors were known to wear them.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

While this particular glyph for oyohualli is somewhat simplified compared to others, these bells still look much like the autonomous-era copper and gold bells that have been found in archaeological sites, and not like the European-style bells (such as the tzilin shown below) that would come to hang in churches after colonization.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro
oyohual

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Oyohual

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Metals, Minerals, Mining
Music, Song, Dance
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Sensory Perception
Technology (all types), plus Tools
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
tied, bound, or bundled
curving, curvy, curved
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
bell-shaped (upright)
frontal view
oval (see also leaf shaped)
Keywords: 

campanillas, campanas, pinjantes, metales, suenan, jingle bells, nombres de hombres

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

oyohual(li), jingle bells, often worn by dancers/warriors, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/oyohualli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Campanilla o Cascabel

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 499r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=77&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: 

Oyohual (MH493v)

Oyohual (MH495v)

Oyohual (MH498v)

Oyohual (MH483r)

Tzilin (MH486r)

Oyohual (MH634r)

Oyohual (MH666v)