Tlalala (MH641r)

Tlalala (MH641r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlalala shows a bell hanging from a cord or leather strip. The name seems onomatopoetic, perhaps intending the sound of a bell ringing.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Two terms we have put into the dictionary field in this record both have a similar repeating "a" across several syllables. And see the glyphs for Callalatl, which also show bells.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

talala

Gloss Normalization: 

Tlalala

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)
onomatopoetic words
visible sound
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Metals, Minerals, Mining
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
frontal view
segmented
tied, bound, or bundled
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

bells, campanillas, campanas

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

tlalalaca(tl), a whistling duck, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalalacatl
cacalaca, for bells to ring, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cacalaca

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 641r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=364st=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: 

Callalatl (Verg8r)

Callalatl (Verg15v)