Quetzon (MH518v)

Quetzon (MH518v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Quetzon ("Long Hair") shows a human head with an extra clump of hair (tzontli) coming off the back of the head. The head is shown in profile looking to the viewer's right. The long hair was not put right onto the head of the tribute payer as can happen; rather, here, it is drawn onto a separate head.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The lock of hair called a tzontli was often bound with a leather strap and it acted as a kind of ponytail or top knot at the top of the head. This hairstyle can be found on priests and warriors. A group of hairs could also look like grass or have a tree shape. See some examples below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

aol guetzō

Gloss Normalization: 

Alonso Quetzon

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

pelos, cabello, hair, hairstyles, heads, cabezas

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

quetzon(tli), hair long on the neck, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzontli
tzon(tli), hair or head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 518v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=116&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: 
See Also: 

tzontli (Mdz48r)

tzontli (TR21r)

Temilo (MH513v)

tzontli (Mdz24v)

centzontli (Mdz26r)

Quetzonpipique (MH567r)

Quetzon (MH660r)

Quetzon (MH833v)