Tozpopoca (MH550r)

Tozpopoca (MH550r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tozpopoca (“Yellow Bird-Smokes," attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of two feathers leaning slightly to the right. Behind the feathers from the bird (toztli) are red and gray straight lines suggesting flames, plus three gray volutes of smoke (suggesting the verb, "to smoke").

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Feathers

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

volute(s)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

front to back

Keywords:

birds, pájaros, smoking, smoke, humeante, humo

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toz(tli), yellow bird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli
popoca, to smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 550r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=179&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).