choloa (MH560r)

choloa (MH560r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the conjugated verb ocholoque (“they ran away”) shows a bird's eye view of two alternating footprints.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is a reference to the people who fled their communities to avoid paying the heavy tribute debts that mounted as people were dying in the epidemics. Colonial authorities were either not reducing the tributes or the process for reducing them was very slow. Running away was an act of resistance to unreasonable colonial economic demands.

Footprints are used in Nahua hieroglyphs to express a number of verbs, nouns, and prepositions. Some examples appear below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

o chologue

Gloss Normalization: 

ocholoque

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax: 
verb
visible movement
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Footprint(s), human
Movement
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
horizontal
Keywords: 

footprints, huellas, run away, huir, correr, escapar

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

choloa, to run, flee, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/choloa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

huir

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 560r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=199&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: 

pano (Mdz38r)

otli (Mdz22r)

Pain (MH519r)

Temoc (MH493v)

xo (Mdz55r)

Iyaqui (MH515r)