Tozpetlacal (MH888r)

Tozpetlacal (MH888r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tozpetlacal (“Petate Box for Yellow Parrot Feathers,” attested here as a woman’s name) shows a frontal view of a lidded reed hamper (petlacalli) made of woven plant material in the style of a petlatl hand-woven mat. The lid is white, while the box involves a herringbone weave of reeds. Above the box, and peeking out from behind, are two feathers, probably from a toztli, or yellow-headed parrot.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Another Tozpetlacal appears on MH554v (below). The top is woven on that one.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

anā tozpetlacal

Gloss Normalization:

Ana Tozpetlacal

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:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives:

checked, cross-hatched, or mesh

frontal view

rectangular

woven

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

mats, esteras, cestos, canastas, cajas, contenedores, cestas con tapas, woven, tejido, feathers, plumas, parrots, loros, yellow, amarillo, petacas, petlacalli, nombres de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toz(tli), yellow headed parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli
petlacal(li), reed hamper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/petlacalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cesta de Petate para Plumas del Loro Amarillo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 888r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=848&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:

intrusive overbar

Historical Contextualizing Image: