Tlaco (MH632v)

Tlaco (MH632v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlaco ("Middle Daughter," attested here as a woman's name) shows the head of a woman in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Below the head is a device made of a stick (tlacotl) associated with restraining an enslaved person (tlacotli). These are phonetic indicators for Tlaco, a birth-order name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Tlacotl and tlacotli were near homonyms for tlaco (middle child). They play a complementary phonetic role here, not a semantic one. The use of a woman's head is probably also a subtle indicator for tlaco, given that this middle-child name was most often used for girls.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

maria
tlaco

Gloss Normalization: 

María Tlaco

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: 
homophony, rebus
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Birth order
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Slavery
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
tied, bound, or bundled
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

nombres de orden de nacimiento, esclava, mujer esclavizada, nombres de mujeres, hija de en medio, viudas, birth order, orden de nacimiento

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

tlaco, middle child, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaco
tlaco(tli), enslaved person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacotli
tlaco(tl), sticks, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la niña del medio

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 632r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=347st=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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tlacotli (MH606v)

Tlaco (MH576v)

cuauhcozcatl (Mdz66r)

Tlaco (MH641r)