Chiquiuhcal (MH560v)

Chiquiuhcal (MH560v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chiquiuhcal (“Basket,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a slightly bent basket (chiquihuitl). If not for the bend in the top, it would be a rectangle. The basket has a herringbone pattern weave.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The final -cal in the name seems to come from calli as in container or enclosure. See, for example, the glyph for the name Mical, below. Another possibility is that this basket has something akin with the basket-like huacalli. If the final syllable is -col instead of -cal, then perhaps it is a bent basket.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

martī shiquiuhcal

Gloss Normalization:

Martín Chiquiuhcal

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:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

woven

Keywords:

baskets, canastas, chiquihuites, woven, tejidos, palmas, petates

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chiquihui(tl), basket, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chiquihuitl-0
cal(li), house, building, enclosure, perhaps also a container, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

La Canasta

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 560v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=200&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:

"sh" for ch

Historical Contextualizing Image: