Quecholloni (MH489v)

Quecholloni (MH489v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph for the personal name Quecholloni is a black line drawing of a bird. The bird (quecholli, a bird with rich feathers, perhaps a roseate swan, is shown in profile, with wings raised and looking to the viewer's right. Its feathers are not textured or colored by the artist.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The quecholli bird's feathers were an important element in indigenous religious ritual, and especially important in the 20-day "month" of Quecholli in the calendar. The context image shows that this is a man's name as he has been baptized, "Mateo." But he still retains his Nahua name.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

matheo quecholloni

Gloss Normalization:

Mateo Quecholloni

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

personal name

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

pájaros, plumas, rituales, meses, calendarios

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

quechol(li), feathers or a bird with rich plumage and sweeping neck, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quecholli
-loni, that which is impacted by the preceding, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/loni

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 489r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=58&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: