Tlacochcue (MH633v)

Tlacochcue (MH633v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlacochcue (perhaps "Javelin-Skirt", attested here as a woman's name) shows a rectangular skirt (cueitl) with two feet shown below the hem. The feet are shown in profile, facing toward the viewer's right, perhaps moving across a landscape. On the skirt are the points of two javelins (tlacochtli or tlacochin) pointing downward.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Perhaps the javelins are an embroidered design on the skirt. To attach javelins to a skirt would be awkward for wearing. The design of the skirt raises the question, does this skirt implicate women in warfare and/or hunting? Our Online Nahuatl Dictionary refers to a Tlacochcuetzin who was the daughter of Huehue Tezozomoctli and the wife of Acolztin, a ruler of Colhuacan.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

magtalena
tlacochcue

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Magdalena Tlacochcue

Gloss/Text 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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (female)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

frontal view

pointed (see also spiky)

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

front to back

Keywords:

flechas, guerra, cazar, faldas, ropa, textiles, nombres de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Tlacochcuetzin, the name of a noble woman whose husband ruled in Colhuacan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochcuetzin
tlacoch(tli), a javelin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochtli
cue(itl), skirt, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cueitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Falda de Jabalinas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 633v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=349&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:

"t" for d

Historical Contextualizing Image: