popoca (MH550r)

popoca (MH550r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the glyphic element popoca (the verb, to emit smoke) has been carved from the compound personal name glyph, Chimalpopoca (see below).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
shading and parallel line hatching
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
symmetry
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

smoking, humeante, humo

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

popoca, to smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 550r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=179&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).

See Also: 

Chimalpopoca (MH550r)

popoca (Mdz4v)

popoca (Mdz13r)

popoca (MH483v)