Xolohua (MH541v)

Xolohua (MH541v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex personal name Xolohua (“Possessor of Xolotl” or "Slaveholder") shows what appears to be a dog in profile, facing right. Its teeth are visible. Its ears are squared off at the top and striped.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Representations of Xolotl can often have characteristics of a dog, with protruding teeth. The wrinkles in its face may recall the aged, ancestor role of a leader named Xolotl. (Xolochtic means wrinkled.) The xoloitzcuintli also has wrinkles on its face, but its ears are not squared off like this. This dog’s squared-off ears are reminiscent of some representations of nenetl in the form of the deity image. If this is not about the ancestral, divine, or canine representation of Xolotl, perhaps it refers to a servant or an enslaved person (as Molina suggests).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

peoxolova

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Pedro Xolohua

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Aging (People, Animals, Things)
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals: Misc.
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Politics, Power, Governance
Religion (Indigenous)
Slavery
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

orejas rectángulares, ancestros, líderes chichimecas, fuerzas divinas, perro, perros, nombres de hombres, men's names

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

Xolotl, ruler, deity, dog, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xolotl
hua, possessor suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Poseedor de Xolotl

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 541v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=162&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).

Orthography: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xolotl (Mdz13v)

Xolotl (Mdz51r)

xolochtic (Mdz71r)

Tepetl Xoloc (FCbk12f48v)