Tepoloa (MH549v)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tepoloa ("To Defeat in War," attested here as a man's name) could be a shortened version of the word tepoloani (see the dictionary link). It is a man walking and looking toward the viewer's right, but his body is in a frontal view. In his right hand he hold a sword raised up. In his left hand he holds a round, Indigenous war shield, decorated with four half-circles connected to the perimeter of the circle, and a small round circle at the center. The man wears no shoes. His tunic appears to be of a European style, with a belt at the waist and longish with a short, flared bottom part (possibly trunk hose?).