Tozquen (MH885r)

Tozquen (MH885r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tozquen (“Yellow Parrot Feathered Ritual Bib”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a rectangular cloth that has knots in the upper right and left corners. On the cloth, which is apparently a ritual bib (quemitl), are two rows of vertical feathers, apparently from the yellow headed parrot (toztli). The fabric curls forward and back on the bib itself, with lines of wrinkles giving it a three-dimensionality.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Drawing from this digital collection, one will find evidence that ritual bibs were decorated with black rubber designs or covered with feathers (from eagles, white herons, a bird called the tzanatl), straw, or flowers.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

di o. tozquē

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Tozquen

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: 
Feathers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
rectangular
three-dimensionality
tied, bound, or bundled
Keywords: 

ropa, pecheros, rituales, plumas, nombres de hombres

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

toz(tli), yellow-headed parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli
quem(itl), ritual bib-like garment, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quemitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Pechero de Plumas de Loros con Cabezas Amarillas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 885r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=842&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: 
See Also: 

Teteuhtepec (Mdz7v)

Cuauhquen (MH694v)

Aztaquemecan (Mdz21v)

Tzanaquen (MH632r)

Xochiquen (MH537v)

Zacaquen (MH787r)