Tlahuiz (MH496r)

Tlahuiz (MH496r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound personal name Tlahuiz (here, attested as a man's name) shows a device associated with warriors, the tlahuiztli. It includes a rectangular banner, and above that is a group of four feathers, connected at their base. They may be quetzalli feathers (see comparisons below). The glyph also includes a jaguar head in profile, looking toward the viewer's left. This is probably a semantic reference to the warrior culture.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

By all accounts, the tlahuiztli was an insignia associated with honor and rank. It could include a bodysuit (not shown here). [See: J. Kathryn Josserand, ‎Karen Dakin, ‎and Henry B. Nicholson, Smoke and Mist: Mesoamerican Studies in Memory of Thelma D. Sullivan (1988, 119).]

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juan
tlahuiz

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Tlahuiz

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiky
rectangular
vertical, upright
profile view
facing left
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

warriors, guerreros, insignia, jaguares, banderas, plumas, nombres de hombres

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

tlahuiz(tli), battle device, weapon, insignia, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuiztli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 496r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=71&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Quetzalcoatl (MH525r)

Quetzalmitl (MH521r)

Quetzallamel (MH524v)