Tohueyo (MH502v)

Tohueyo (MH502v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tohueyo ("Outsider") is attested here as a man's name. This glyph is built onto the tribute payer himself in the form of an addition of an inverted teardrop shape below what would be his ear. It has a black center and a white border. Also, protruding from the tribute payer’s chin is something that looks like a flower, with four small circles, each one with a dot in the center. The implication may be that these additions make the man look like an "outsider" (tohueyo).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The teardrop shape may be akin to the ones described in the book Birds and Beasts (2023: 317), edited by Susan Milbrath and Elizabeth Baquedano. Plenty of evidence of "othering" will be found in this collection of hieroglyphs. See below for more examples of how face paint or other facial ornamentation is used to show differences between ethnicities.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

nicolas tohueyo

Gloss Normalization: 

Nicolás Tohueyo

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: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

foreigners, extranjeros, ethnicities, etnicidades, nombres de hombres, othering, otherness, otredad, alteridad

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

tohueyo, outsider, foreigner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tohueyo

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Extranjero

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 502v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=83&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: 

Tohueyo (MH625r)

Oton (MH521r)

Tezaca (MH626r)