Huexotzinco (Mdz42r)

Huexotzinco (Mdz42r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Huexotzinco doubles as the ethnic name, Huexotzincatl (as shown in the gloss image). The glyph includes two elements, a tree known as a white willow (huexotl) and a buttocks or bottom [tzintli used here to provide the phonetic value for the locative suffix (-tzinco), place. The tree is a two-tone green. It has a leader and two side branches. The bottom is of a male (with the white waist band of the loincloth visible), the skin tone is a terracotta, and the lower half of the body is in a profile view with the man facing to the viewer's right. The head of a man (not shown here but attached to the place name on folio 42 recto) has short hair just below his ears, bangs, a headband, and a curved labret covering his chin, which Berdan and Anawalt say are all features typical of men from this town.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This huexotl compares favorably and differs from others in the Codex Mendoza, as can be seen below, right. Huexotzinco (or Huejotzingo today) is located in the contemporary state of Puebla.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

huexotzincatl

Gloss Normalization:

Huexotzincatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

locative (visual not silent)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

trees, árboles, rear end, nalgas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huexo(tl), white willow tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huexotl
tzin(tli), buttocks, bottom, rear end, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzintli
-tzinco (locative suffix), little, lower, or new, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzinco

Karttunen’s Interpretation:

"New Huexotlah" [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

"On the Small Willow Tree" (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. 188)

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 42 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english

Image Source, Rights:

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).