Tecualani (MH791r)

Tecualani (MH791r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tecualani (perhaps "Loathsome") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a man's head in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. It is not the tribute payer himself; but an extra head. Someone's left hand is grabbing a large lock of the man's hair. The implication is that he is hated and therefore being treated badly, possibly being taken captive.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

To pull or cut someone's hair in Nahua culture was a grave insult and cause of intense emotion. Sonya Lipsett-Rivera writes about the ritual humiliation of hair pulling in Religion in New Spain, eds. Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole (2007), 79.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

fraco tequallani

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Tecualani

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Emotions
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Hair pulling
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: 

nombres de hombres, odio, enemistad, emoción, comportamiento, aborrecible

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

tecualani, a loathsome person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecualani

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Odiado

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 791r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=656&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: 
"ll" for l
"q" for c
Historical Contextualizing Image: