Tzicuin (MH658v)

Tzicuin (MH658v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing for the simplex glyph for the personal name Tzicuin (“Leaper” or “Runner”) shows a nude man in a three-quarter view. He has his arms raised, his knees slightly bent, and his legs somewhat apart, as though he is about to jump or run.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The verb choloa has a similar meaning of running or jumping, but it can also lean toward “flee” and refer to people who had left a pueblo to avoid paying tribute. In the Codex Mendoza choloa was typically shown with a bent deer leg, but by the time of the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, it could appear as a human leg or footprints. It is a more common verb than tzicuini in Nahua hieroglyphs.

The way this man is shown in a 3/4 view may suggest European artistic influence.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

andres.tzicuī.

Gloss Normalization: 

Andrés Tzicuin

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
Syntax: 
verb
visible movement
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Body postures
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
3/4 view
Keywords: 

saltar, correr, nombres de hombres

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

tzicuini, to leap, jump, or run, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzicuini

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Saltó

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 658v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=397&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: 

choloa (Mdz23v)

choloa (Mdz42r)

choloa (MH633v)

choloa (MH560r)