Quecholloni (MH490v)

Quecholloni (MH490v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Quecholloni ("Quechol Feather Device"?) is attested as a man's name. It shows a bird's head in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. Its eye and beak are open. It has a single feather sticking up from behind its head or from its neck.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

We are calling this a compound because the bird and the feather both play into the name, which is a noun with some agency or ritual involvement. This could be a flamingo or a roseate spoonbill, and therefore its feathers are red. They are highly prized.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro guecholloni

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro 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)

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Keywords:

plumas, pájaros, rituales, religión indígena

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

quechol(li), a bird and the name of a veintena involving rich red feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quecholli
-loni, that with which something is being done, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/loni

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 490v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=60&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: