Tlacocihuatl (MH747r)

Tlacocihuatl (MH747r)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex Nahuatl hieroglyph for the personal name or status, Tlacocihuatl (“Enslaved Woman”), Is attested here as pertaining to a woman. The glyph shows the head of a woman in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. She has a yoke around the neck, of the type that were put onto the necks of enslaved persons. It is like a round wooden collar with a stick that goes behind the neck. The woman has tears running down her cheeks.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This hieroglyph could be considered a compound if we count the stick (tlacotl) as a complement to tlacotli (enslaved person).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

magturena tlacuçivatl

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Magdalena Tlacocihuatl

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:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Emotions

Gender (female)

Labor Issues

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

Keywords:

trabajo, yugo, esclava, esclavos, personas esclavizadas, lágrimas, nombres de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlaco(tli), an enslaved person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacotli
tlaco(tl), stick, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacotl
tlaco, half, middle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaco
cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Esclava

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 747r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=572&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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