Oyohual (MH721r)

Oyohual (MH721r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Oyohual (“Jingle Bells”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows what may be a piece of fabric decorated with eight bells. They are upright and seem to hang from the cloth. Short horizontal lines come off the sides of the cloth, perhaps fringe or perhaps an indication of visual sound.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Warriors wore jingle bells on their legs.

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)
visible sound
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Metals, Minerals, Mining
Music, Song, Dance
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

jingle bells, suenan, metales, campanas, campanillas, pinjantes

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

oyohual(li), warriors’ leg bells, jingle bells, 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 721r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=520&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: 
"u" for hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Oyohual (MH495v)

Oyohual (MH498v)

Oyohual (MH499r)