Tlamanca (MH814v)

Tlamanca (MH814v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlamanca (“Different”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. On the man’s face are vertical black lines intersecting at right angles with horizontal lines. This may be face paint, and the patterns on the face may be an ethnic indicator.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Several glyphs for the name Tlamaca (“He Serves”) also appear in this collection, and a dropped or an intrusive “n” can be very common in this orthography. But those glyphs do not have the ethnic features of the ones we are labeling Tlamanca. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Face Paint or Tattoos
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

etnicidad, pintura facial, diferencia, servidor, paje, nombres de hombres

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

tlamanca, separate or different, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamanca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Diferente, o Aparte

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 814v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=703&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: 

Tlamanca (MH843v)

Tlamanca (MH811r)

Tlamaca (MH499r)

Tlamaca (MH538r)

Tlamaca (MH777r)