huilana (MH558v)

huilana (MH558v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

The image for this simplex glyph of the verb huilana, to drag, is shared with the simplex glyph for Tlahuilan, which refers to something that is being dragged (in this case, a horizontal beam, probably a huapalli). The act of dragging involves a rope or cord, which is shown here attached to the piece of wood and in what may be a bird's eye view. The rope or cord seems to be twisted. A (left) hand touches the cord or rope, adding to the action.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The dragging of beams for use in construction is also mentioned in the Spanish-language text in Book 11, folio 110v, of the Digital Florentine Codex. On folio 119r of Book 11, there is a reference about how the man who cuts the beam will "put a cord on it."

Added 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
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Rope, cord, string
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
tied, bound, or bundled
twisted or entwined
Keywords: 

drag, dragging, pulling, arrastrar, vigas, pull, jalar, jalando, arrastrando

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

huilana, to go along dragging, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huilana

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

arrastrar

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 558v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=196&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).

See Also: 

Tlahuilan (MH558v)

Tlahuilan (MH513r)

huilana (MH497v)

huilana (MH513r)

huilana (MH570v)

Tlaximal (MH857v)

huapalli (Azca26)

cuauhnanamaca (FCbk10f59r)