Yaopipi (MH483r)

Yaopipi (MH483r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Yaopipi (“Enemy Spy,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a war shield, which is the typical sign for enemy or combatant (yaotl). The shield is black with a white, upright cross. Above the shield is a profile view of the head of an unusual-looking person, with no hair and lots of wrinkles on the back of his head and neck. This is apparently meant to be someone who spies, implying the verb pipia.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

It is not captured in the gloss image, but in the contextualizing image one can see that this man's full name is Antonio Yaopipi. His strange appearance may suggest that he is from a different ethnicity.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

yaopipi

Gloss Normalization: 

Yaopipi

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: 
noun(s)
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
cross (+)
facing left
frontal view
profile view
wrinkles
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

escudos, rodelas, enemigos, espías, spies, enemies, shields

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

yao(tl), combatant, enemy, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl
pipia, to spy, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pipia

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Espía Enemiga

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&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: 

Yaotl (MH483r)

Yaotl (MH484v)