Mimich (MH486v)

Mimich (MH486v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mimich ("Fish," attested here as a man's name) shows a vertical fish (michin), head up, mouth and eye open. Suggestions of fins appear outside the body. The body has a line down the middle and suggestions of scales.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The name has reduplication (the "mi" is doubled), but the visuals do not indicate a reduplication. The gloss and the contextualizing image both indicate that this man, Felipe Mimich, had an occupation related to providing the covering for a tobacco tube. There is a Mimich, for which this man may have been named, who was a Cloud Serpent paired with Xiuhnel and associated with hunting. Magnus Pharao Hansen defines Mimich as "Little Fish." [See his blog from 2014, "Nahuatl Names: The Nahuatl names in the 1544 census of Morelos."]

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

filipe mimich tlapepecho

Gloss Normalization: 

Felipe Mimich, tlapepecho

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)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

fish, peces, pez, pescado, hunting, cazar, Serpientes de las Nubes, Cloud Serpents

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

mimich, fish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mimich.

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 486v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&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: