Tozquihua (MH606v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex personal name Tozquihua ("Someone With a Voice" or someone named after a famous ruler of Chalco) shows a profile of the head of a man. Around his neck is a ring of feathers, presumably from the yellow-headed parrot (toztli).
Stephanie Wood
Perhaps the feathers would be yellow if the artist could have used colorants. The Toz- here seems to have a phonetic role rather than a logographic one, unless it is a reference to the bird's ability to sing.
Stephanie Wood
pedro tozquiva
Pedro Tozquihua
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
voz, cantar, música, pájaros, plumas, gobernantes famosos, Chalco
toz(tli), yellow headed parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli
tozquihua, someone with a voice, also the name of a famous lord of Chalco, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tozquihua
-hua, possession, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua
el nombre de un famoso gobernante de Chalco, o Alguien Con una Voz
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 606v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=295st=image.
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