Tozpetlacal (MH885v)

Tozpetlacal (MH885v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tozpetlacal (“Petate Box for Yellow Parrot Feathers,” attested here as a woman’s name) shows a lidded reed hamper (petlacalli) made of woven plant material in the style of a petlatl hand-woven mat. Lying on the box in a horizontal position is a toztli (yellow-headed parrot) feather. The purpose of the container may be to hold these precious feathers.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The final “l” has been dropped (apparently inadvertently) from the end of the gloss, but other examples of this noun appear on other pages with the final “l.” Women are only rarely represented in the tribute list that makes up the bulk of the glyphs of the Matrícula de Huexotzinco. Married women had to contribute to the tributes owing from their households, but only their husbands typically appear in the lists. Widows, however, had to pay, and therefore they sometimes appear. The variety and patterns of names that were given to girls is difficult to capture. This woman was a widow, as the contextualizing image conveys.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

maria / tozpetlaca

Gloss Normalization: 

María Tozpetlaca

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
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils
Feathers
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
woven
Keywords: 

mats, esteras, cestos, canastas, woven, tejido, feathers, plumas, parrots, loros, yellow, amarillo, petacas, petlacalli, viudas, nombres de mujeres

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

toz(tli), yellow-headed parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli
petla(tl), woven mat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/petlatl
cal(li), house, building, or container, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cesto de Plumas del Loro Amarillo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 885v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=843&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: 
dropped "l"
forward slash
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tozpetlacal (MH554v)