Macuex (MH495v)

Macuex (MH495v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Macuex ("Bracelet" or "Beaded Wristband," attested here as a man's name) shows an upright (right) hand with a bracelet (macuextli) at the wrist. The bracelet consists of four round beads.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro
macuex

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Macuex

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
facing left
pointed (see also spiky)
profile view
Keywords: 

bracelets, pulseras, joyas, jewels, beads, cuentas, nombres de hombres

Museum & Rare Book Comparisons: 
Museum/Rare Book Notes: 

These beads are located in the Regional Museum of Guadalajara. The strings are not the originals. Presumably these strands represent chalchihuitl (green) and xihuitl (turquoise), but the distinction between blue and green is not always hard and fast. (Photo by Stephanie Wood, 4 February 2025.)

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

macuex(tli), a bracelet with precious stones, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuextli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Pulsera de Cuentas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=70&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: 
See Also: 

Macuex (MH497r)

Macuex (MH499v)

Macuex (MH487v)

Macuex (MH638r)

Macuex (MH669v)