Tlacochmachan (MH622v)

Tlacochmachan (MH622v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlacochmachan ("Woven Javelins") is attested here as a man's name. It shows at least projectiles (tlacochtli) with barbed points, two leaning left and two leaning right. They seem to be interwoven, recalling the verb, machana.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The javelins, called either tlacochtli or the older term tlacochin, were sometimes connected into a square shape, interlocking at their ends and creating a type of structure. There is a tlacochinamitl that is an enclosure, which suggests that the spears or arrows were interwoven or connected for a purpose. The -chinamitl ending to the word for the enclosure points to the use of tlacochtli in making chinampas (chinamitl), but this is just speculation. Such a word with those origins might have another "ch" in the middle.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

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)

reduplication (visual)

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

cross (x)

diagonal or angled

frontal view

pointed (see also spiky)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

arpón, arpones, jabalinas, lanzas, flechas, entretejidas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlacoch(tli), a javelin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochtli
tlacochinami(tl), an enclosure, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochinamitl
machana, to interweave reeds or the like, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/machana

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Las Flechas Entretejidas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 622v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=327&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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