Yectli Icue (MH487r)

Yectli Icue (MH487r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Yectli Icue ("Her Skirt is Good") is attested as a man's name. The glyph is a square skirt (cueitl) with two vertical lines that divide the square in thirds. Four horizontal lines cross the square in the bottom third.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The gloss informs the viewer that this is a skirt (cueitl. The tripartite division of the fabric suggests that each piece was handwoven and sewn together. This may be a design that was common in Huexotzinco (see other examples, below).

Furthermore, the skirt is possessed (i-, third-person singular), and it is a good one (yectli). Cueitl was a metaphor for woman, but perhaps that does not apply in this case. This name could be run together as Yectlicue, but it also separates into two words with the restoration of the elided double i.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco yectlicue

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Yectli Icue

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax: 
phrase or sentence
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (female)
Gender (male)
Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Keywords: 

skirts, faldas, ropa, clothing, género, mujeres, women

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

yec(tli), a good thing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yectli
cue(itl), skirt, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cueitl
i- (possessive pronound, third-person singular), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Su Falda es Una Cosa Buena

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 487r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=53&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: 

Ilancueitl (TR29v)