Zacuancalqui (MH711v)

Zacuancalqui (MH711v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful compound glyph for the personal name or title, Zacuancalqui (perhaps “He of the Zacuan [Feather] House”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a frontal view of a building or house (calli) with a red (probably wooden) lintel and red vertical beams supporting the lintel and framing the entrance. The base of each upright beam is black. Three yellow feathers stand upright on the roof of the building. The calamus of each feather is white.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Yellow feathers were prized. Besides the zacuan feathers, see also the feathers of the cozotl and the toztli.

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, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

title/office

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

pájaros, plumas, edificios, casas, persona encargada, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

zacuan, a bird with intense yellow tail feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacuan
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
-qui, one who does that thing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/qui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él de la Casa de las Plumas del Zacuan

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 711v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=501&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:

"ç" for z or tz

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: