Tlahuiztotol (MH525r)

Tlahuiztotol (MH525r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlahuiztotol (“Wild Turkey War Insignia,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a decorated banner (apparently referring to the war insignia, tlahuiztli), and to the right of that, the head of a wild turkey in profile looking toward the viewer's right. Its eye is open; its beak is closed. It has a small protrusion on the top of the beak. The decoration on the top of the flag {panitl) appears to be a feathered device.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro tlahuiztotol

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Tlahuiztotol

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Feathers

Flags, banners

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

War or Conflict

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

left to right

Keywords:

wild turkeys, guajolotes

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlahuiz(tli), war insignia, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuiztli
totol(in), wild turkey, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/totolin

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 525r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=129&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: