caczoqui (MH593v)

caczoqui (MH593v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the occupation caczoqui (“shoemaker,” attested here as a man’s job) shows a shoe or sandal (cactli) facing right. Behind and below the shoe are two pairs of scissors or puncturing tools, pointing to the cutting or sewing (zozo) part of the job. The reduplication of that implied verb may explain why there are two pair of scissors.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The need for two tools may be suggest "zozo" (to sew) or it may refer to the plural of the term, shoemakers. The gloss refers to a group of three shoemakers (caczoque), but just one is caczoqui.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

cacçoque iiii

Gloss Normalization: 

nahui caczoque

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: 
noun(s)
reduplication (visual)
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Metals, Minerals, Mining
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
right to left
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

shoes, sandals, zapatos, sandalias, oficios, occupations, scissors, tijeras

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

caczoqui, shoemaker, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/caczoqui
cac(tli), shoe or sandal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cactli
zozo, to string things together, sew, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zozo
-qui, one who, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/qui-1

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

zapatero

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 593v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=266&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: 

zozo (MH593v)