Tlamaceuh (MH529v)

Tlamaceuh (MH529v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, a portrait of a man in a 3/4 view, facing right, shows him fully clothed with trousers, a Spanish-style, long-sleeve, cuffed shirt that is belted, sandals, and a hat. He still wears a cape tied on the shoulder and Nahua sandal-like shoes with ties, and he carries an Indigenous agricultural tool, a digging stick, the huictli. The gloss names him as Diego Tlamaceuh, the "Deserving One."

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

A similar word to tlamaceuh was tlalmacehua, one who was deserving and won the land for the people, i.e., a person who was a town founder and an ancestor. The presence of a huictli, or digging stick, here seems to allude to this person's role as having a landed and agricultural component. This figure is very reminiscent of the macuiltecpanpixqui glyph (below). Also, the contextualizing image shows a number of flags, with perhaps the fifth one running into the margin. It may result that this man was a guard for 100 tribute payers.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

diego tlamaçeuh

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Tlamaceuh

Gloss 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)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Gender (male)

Politics, Power, Governance

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

3/4 view

tied, bound, or bundled

vertical, upright

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

oficiales, merecer, herramientas, agricultura

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlamacehua, to be deserving, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamaceuhua
macehua, to merit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macehua
tlalmacehua, land winner, town founder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalmacehua
huic(tli), agricultural tool, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huictli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Merecido

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 529v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=138&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: