Tecuecuex (MH783v)

Tecuecuex (MH783v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tecuecuex (“Anklet”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a lower leg and foot in profile, facing the viewer’s right. A ring goes around the leg, and a pleated covering drops down from the ring, which covers the ankle.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Beads and bells often attach to the anklets for dancers, but this anklet appears to be fabric or paper. Cuecuextli, tecuecuextli, and macuextli refer to adornments for wrists and ankles. They all contain the same syllable "-cuex-." Reduplication may have to do with multiple beads or bells, or perhaps the repetitious jingling sound that such adornments could cause.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pe^o tecuecues

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Tecuecuex

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)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Music, Song, Dance

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

tobilleras, braceletes para el tobillo, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecuecuex(tli), beads or golden bells tied around the ankle, probably for dancing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuecuextli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Tobillera

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 783v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=661&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:

"s" for x

Historical Contextualizing Image: