petlachiuhqui (MH489r)

petlachiuhqui (MH489r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the occupation of woven-mat maker (petlachiuhqui) shows a black-line drawing of a woven mat in a horitontal, rectangular shape with a herringbone pattern. This mat is a petlatl (petate in modern Mexican Spanish). The -chiuhqui (maker) part of the occupational name is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This craft occupation is held by a man in this case. The petlatl is a mat woven from vegetable fibers, such as tule reeds or palm fibers. Every Nahua family would have had some, whether for sitting, sleeping, or wrapping things, for example. So, the petlatl maker was in big demand.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Art, Design, Crafts, etc.
Occupations
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
woven
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

petla(tl), woven mat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/petlatl
chihua, to make, to do, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chihua
-chiuhqui, one who makes the indicated things, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chiuhqui
-qui, one who has this occupation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/qui-1

Karttunen’s Interpretation: 

mats, petates, ocupación, oficios, occupation, occupations

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El que hace petates

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 489r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=57&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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