Tochomipa (MH871r)

Tochomipa (MH871r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painting drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tochomipa (“He Dyes Rabbit Fur”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an entire rabbit (tochtli) pelt (tochomitl) being raised up from a vessel that must have a liquid red dye in it. The animal’s arms are spread eagle. The vessel has a horizontal rim around the top.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Dying rabbit fur was the job of a girl according to the Florentine Codex (Book 9, 88), as explained in notes published by A. Wimmer in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl. Tochomitl, rabbit hair or fur, is referenced many times in the Getty’s Digital Florentine Codex, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/search?term=tochomitl&view=text&filters=, where information is provides explaining how the exceptional red color was obtained. The color was called tlapalli (red, even when tlapalli could also refer to various colors, in general). See below for some glyphs that have a tlapalli element colored red. Colors are not commonly used for most glyphs in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, so the appearance of this red color stands out.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juo tochomipa

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Tochomipa

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

verb

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Leather, hides

Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

red

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Keywords:

conejos, pieles, pelaje, pelo, tintas, rojo, tochtli nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tochomipa, to dye rabbit fur, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochomipa
toch(tli), a rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
tochomi(tl), rabbit hair, fur, or the entire pelt, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochomitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Tinta Pelaje de Conejo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 871r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=814&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: