Quetzalpepena (MH708v)

Quetzalpepena (MH708v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Quetzalpepena (“He Selects Quetzal Feathers”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows three green upright quetzal feathers (quetzalli), and one is being selected (pepena) by a person’s (left) hand.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The verb pepena is most often paired with the noun xochitl (flower). See five examples, below. In all of these, a hand is there to make the selection.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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)

verb

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

blue (turquoise)

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

plumas, feathers, quetzales, escoger, verbos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

quetzal(li), quetzal feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli
pepena, to choose or select, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pepena

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Escoge Plumas de Quetzal

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 708v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=495&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: