Texinqui (MH509r)

Texinqui (MH509r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name (or occupation), Texinqui ("He Who Shaves People" or "He Who Cuts People's Hair", i.e., Barber), is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a man's head in profile facing toward the viewer's left. A hand above this head holds a stone (tetl) in the form of an obsidian blade or flint knife, and the hand appears to be cutting the hair or shaving (xima) the head of the man pictured. The suffix (-qui) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Other examples of texinqui tend to show hatchets, such as those for chopping wood or even carving stone (see below). But for cutting hair or shaving a head, that would be overkill. Hence the obsidian blade.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

thomas
Texinq~

Gloss Normalization: 

Tomás Texinqui

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
indefinite "te"
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Occupations
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
Keywords: 

blades, shaver, hands, manos, cuchillos, navajas, obsidiana, obsidian, hair, cabellos

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

texinqui, barber, woodcutter, sculptor, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/texinqui
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
xima, to shave, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xima
-qui, one who does that thing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/qui-1

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Peluquero

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 509r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=97&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: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

texinqui (MH489r)

texinqui (MH519v)