Tlamani (MH618v)

Tlamani (MH618v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlamani ("One Who Captures Another in War") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a profile view of a man's head, looking toward the viewer's right. The hand of an unknown person is pulling the man's hair upward.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The pulling or cutting of someone's hair was a grave insult and brought dishonor. Hair pulling was also an attack strategy. [See Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856, 2012, 245.] Perhaps the captive in this glyph was about to be sacrificed, as the hair of some slaves was pulled out before they were sacrificed.

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: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

captura, tirar de cabello, agarrar del pelo, nombres de hombres

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

tlamani, one who captures another in war, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamani

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Que Captura Otros en Guerra

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 618v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=319&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: 

icali (TR34v)

Cocoliloc (MH591r)

Cocol (MH608v)

Otonmani (MH560r)