Tlaquehual (MH733v)

Tlaquehual (MH733v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or employment status, Tlaquehual (“Hired Hand”), is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph is simply an agricultural tool, the huictli. It is a vertical, trapezoidal shape, broader at the top than the bottom. But, here, the digging-end is up and the handle-end is down. The Tlamaceuh and the Zacamol glyphs, below, show how the wider part goes down into the ground.

Description, 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:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Gender (male)

Labor Issues

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

pointed (see also spiky)

vertical, upright

Keywords:

coas, herramientas, trabajadores de campo, gañanes, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlaquehual(li), hired hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaquehualli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Trabajador de Campo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 733v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=545&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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