zolanqui (MH831v)

zolanqui (MH831v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the occupation of zolanqui (“quail hunter””) is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph shows simply the head of a quail, in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Another example of a glyph for a quail hunter is found on MH774v (below). It puts a net behind the quail’s head, which may be an indication for how the birds were caught. Quail hunting was considered dangerous, but quail were prized as food on the table of the Nahua nobility. [See: History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca (1998), 58; and, Manuel Aguilar-Moreno, Handbook to Life in the Aztec World (2007), 329.]

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tzolaq~

Gloss Normalization: 

zolanqui

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Occupations
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

codorniz, pájaros, cazar, oficios

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

zolanqui, a quail hunter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zolanqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

cazador de codornices

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 831v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=737&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: 
"ts" for z
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

zolanqui (MH774v)