cuicui (MH605v)

cuicui (MH605v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of this glyphic element cuicui ("to gather") has been carved from the personal name glyph, Xochicuicuic (see below). The act of gathering involves a hand holding two flowers. Small vertical lines in the air surrounding this suggest repeated action, movement, and a visual reduplication.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See below for some additional examples of visible reduplication.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
verb
visible movement
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Flowers
Movement
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
profile view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

cuicui, to gather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuicui

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 605v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=293st=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: 

Xochicuicuic (MH605v)

Cuicui (MH536r)

Nanacatepec (HJ276:79:pt3:242r)

Papantla (Mdz52r)

Onenepanco (MH613v)

Tecuicuil (MH647v)

Tecuacua (MH520r)

Tetenanco (Mdz42r)