Tecuecuex (MH565r)

Tecuecuex (MH565r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tecuecuex (“Golden Ankle Bells for Dancing,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a lower leg and foot in a 3/4 perspective. Around the ankle are four circles, suggesting bells for dancing (tecuecuextli).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The term for bracelet, macuextli, which has small circles such as those shown here, seems to have the same root for this term, but with the added ma- referring to the wrist of the hand instead of the ankle of the foot. The ankle bell found in the personal name Xocoyol has the xo- element for foot, but not the -cuex- element.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

nigolas tecuecues

Gloss Normalization:

Nicolás Tecuecuex

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)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Music, Song, Dance

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Sensory Perception

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

3/4 view

facing right

Keywords:

jingle bells, campanas, campanillas, cascabeles, bailar

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecuecuex(tli), golden bells on ankles for dancing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuecuextli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Campanillas de Oro para Bailar

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 565r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=209&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: