tzontli (MH504r)

tzontli (MH504r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element of human hair (tzontli) has been carved from the compound glyph for the personal name Tezcatzon. Because the artist chose to attach the hair to a round mirror, the result is that the hair hangs from a line that curves upward on the ends. The hair is just a series of straight black lines.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Hair (human or animal)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
frontal view
spiky
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

hair, cabello, pelos

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

tzon(tli), hair, head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el cabello, el pelo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 504r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=87&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).

See Also: 

Tezcatzon (MH504r)

tzontli (Mdz24v)

tzontli (TR21r)