Totolac (MH695v)

Totolac (MH695v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This red, white, and black painting of the compound glyph for the place name Totolac (“At the Turkey Waters”) shows the head of a turkey in profile, looking toward the viewer’s left. This head is elaborately decorated with considerable detail. Three streams of water (atl) come out of the bottom of the turkey’s head. Two streams end in droplets and one in a turbinate shell. To the right of this glyph is the additional element that says this is a place name (underwriting the -c locative); this is a rectangular building in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

There is a San Juan Totolac north of Tlaxcala today, and there could well be others across Mexico. See some other examples of totolin below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

totollac

Gloss Normalization: 

Totolac

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: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (places)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
rectangular
right angle(s)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
left to right
multidirectional
Keywords: 

pavos, guajolotes, agua, nombres de lugares

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

totol(in), turkey hen, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/totolin
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
-c (locative), in, on, at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En las Aguas de los Guajolotes

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 695v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=471&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).

Orthography: 
"ll" for l
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

totolin (Mdz7v)

totolin (Mdz21v)

totolin (TR40r)