Huexotzincatl (Mdz42r)

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph for the ethnic name Huexotzincatl shows a profile of a man's head, facing the viewer's right. The man has a red (leather?) headband and short dark hair tucked behind his ear. A white, curving ornament (labret, according to Berdan and Anawalt) appears on his chin, perhaps coming out of his lip (not visible). [See Berdan and Anawalt, The Codex Mendoza, 1992, vol. 1, pl. 188.]

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The hairstyle, headband, and lip ornament, appear to be iconographic ethnic identifiers. Guy Stresser-Péan (1995, 45) discusses a tezacanecuilli (or bezote, in Spanish) that curls and is warn by warriors of Huexotzinco. (See the full citation for his book in our Bibliography.)

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:

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

phonetic dimensions

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Leather, hides

Plants, Flora

Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

tripartite

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

ethnicity, etnicidad

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
-ca(tl), a person from or associated with, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl#

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

"Persona de Huexotzinco"

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 42 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 94 of 188.

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).

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