Pinotl (MH871v)

Pinotl (MH871v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Pinotl (perhaps “Foreigner Who Speaks Another Language”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing the viewer’s right. The hair on his head and face is unruly.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The appearance of this person does not obviously refer to the speaking of another language. There are no strange speech scrolls. Rather, the presentation seems to be a form of “othering,” as though this person is a barbarian. Alonso de Molina even uses the term bárbaro to define pinotl. One advanced search option in this collection is Cultural Content: ethnicity, where one can see representations of various ethnicities, which can have facial ornaments, face paint, and other markers of difference.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juo. pinotl

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Pinotl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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: 
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition, Languages
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

idiomas, extranjeros, bárbaros, nombres de hombres

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

pino(tl), a stranger, of a different ethnicity, a speaker of another language, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pinotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Bárbaro que Habla Otro Idioma

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 871v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=815&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: 

Tencax (MH604r)

Tohueyo (MH625r)

Tohueyo (MH502v)