Xinqui (MH713v)

Xinqui (MH713v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name, Xinqui (perhaps “Cutter,” “Shaver,” or “Sculptor”), is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows nearly the same tool that appears in glyphs for tlaxinqui (carpenter), which could therefore be a possibility here, too. The tool has what is likely a wooden handle and a red (copper?) blade. The blade is tied onto the curved handle.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

A texinqui is represented by a similar tool, too, but the te- indefinite object, suggests “barber,” because the texinqui would be shaving people or cutting the hair of people. The tool can also stand for the type of metal, such as copper (tepoztli). See examples, below.

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

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Occupations
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
profile view
tied, bound, or bundled
Keywords: 

herramientas, oficios, trabajo, cortar, afeitar, escultor, nombres de hombres

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

xinqui, one who cuts, shaves, or sculpts, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xinqui
tlaxinqui, carpenter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaxinqui
xima, to shave or cut, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xima
-qui, one who does this, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/qui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Cortador, o Escultor

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 713v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=505&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).

Orthography: 
"g" for c, q, or x
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlaxinqui (MH522r)

tlaxinqui (MH834r)

texinqui (MH489r)

tlaxinqui (MH775v)

cuauhxinqui (Mdz70r)

tepoztli (Mdz5v)