Tequequeloa (MH538r)

Tequequeloa (MH538r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tequequeloa (attested here as a man’s name) shows a human hand holding onto a stick or staff that is upright. It gets somewhat larger at the top. It appears to be rounded and about the size of a European chair leg. The right side of the staff has shading, giving it a three-dimensionality.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

A satisfactory translation for this name is elusive. The noun tequequeloani refers to someone who mocks others, and yet there is no obvious referent here in the staff. Perhaps the way the staff is held is reminiscent of a ruler who is too authoritarian.

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, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
indefinite "te"
reduplication (in gloss/text)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Personality, Behavior
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
facing right
profile view
rectangular
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
vertical, upright
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

sticks, palos, bastones

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

tequequeloani, a mocker, scoffer, deceiver, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequequeloani

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Palo, o El Bastón (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 538r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=115&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).

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