Totolehuatl (MH520v)

Totolehuatl (MH520v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Totolehuatl (here, attested as a man's name) shows the head of a wild turkey (totol(in)] in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. Below the turkey is a bird's eye view of the skin of a turkey, seemingly still with some feather on it. The edges of the skin are scalloped.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Surely, there were uses for turkey skin in the Nahua culture and probably the religion. The wearing of skins has associations with impersonating (as ixiptla) divine forces, such as is reflected with the divinity called Xipe Totec, which has connections to fertility, renewal, and also warfare. [See Mexicolore for a short article on Xipe Totec.)

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Jua^o totolevatl

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Totolehuatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

numbers

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Feathers

Gender (male)

Leather, hides

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

dotted, granular, textured

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

skins, hides, pieles, pájaros

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

totol(in), wild turkey, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/totolin
ehua(tl), leather, hides, skins, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehuatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Piel de Pavo Silvestre

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 520v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=120&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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