Tozcueten (MH632v)

Tozcueten (MH632v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tozcueten (“Skirt with the Yellow Feather Border,” attested here as a woman’s name) shows a rectangular skirt (cueitl) with a notable lower horizontal border (tentli), above that, two large feathers (probably from the toztli bird, whose feathers are yellow).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

agata
tozcuetē

Gloss Normalization:

Ágata Tozcueten

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:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Feathers

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

rectangular

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

skirts, clothing, faldas, ropa, feathers, plumas, loros, amarillo, orillas, borde, adorno, prendas, viudas, nombres de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toz(tli), yellow parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli
cue(itl), skirt, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cueitl
ten(tli), lip or edge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Falda con Plumas de Loro Amarillo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 632r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=347&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: