Tozquechol (MH518v)

Tozquechol (MH518v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound personal name Tozquechol (here, attested as a man's name) includes a feather (probably from a yellow bird, toztli). Below that is a full bird, upright, in profile, facing the viewer's right. Given the gloss, it is probably the bird with rich feathers called a quecholli.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The significance of the toztli feather is notable. Just this one feather above the bird is recognizable enough to bring forth the Toz- start to the name. It is not just any feather. See the Tozquecholtzin glyph below, too.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

birds, feathers, pájaros, plumas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toz(tli), yellow-headed Amazon (bird), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli
quechol(li), roseate swan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quecholli-0

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 518v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=116&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: