Xocuicuitla (MH569v)

Xocuicuitla (MH569v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xocuicuitla (“Foot [in] Excrement,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a human foot in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The foot has shading along the bottom edge, giving it a three-dimensionality. What may be the bottom of a pant leg appears above the foot (although long pants were rare for Indigenous men). Underneath the foot are about seven small round shapes that are apparently there to convey the idea of excrement.

Description, 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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
xo syllable
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Cleanliness, Orderliness, and their absence
Excretions (bodily, human or animal)
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

caca, mierda, pisar, pie, step, stand, waste, excrement, excretions, excreción, excreciones, pantalones, trousers

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

xo-, foot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xo
cuitla(tl), excrement, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuitlatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Pisar en Mierda (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 569v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=218&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).

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