Quecholatl (MH628v)

Quecholatl (MH628v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name Quecholatl ("Roseate Spoonbill-Water"?) shows a bird in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Its eye is open and its beak is tipped upward. Three wavy lines (perhaps representing atl, water) appear on a diagonal, coming down from the bird's neck.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The quecholli was a bird whose feathers had an important ritual role in the 20-day month of the same name. The design of the element for water here is nothing like the pre-contact shape, perhaps suggesting that the artist had been exposed to European stylistics.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juan
q~chollatl

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Quecholatl

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:

calendrics

month name

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Beverages

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

linear or multiple straight lines

profile view

pointed (see also spiky)

wavy

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

birds, pájaros, feathers, plumas, water, liquid, líquido, mes, calendario, fiesta, bebida

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

quechol(li), a bird with rich red feathers, perhaps a Flamingo or the Roseate Spoonbill, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quecholli-0
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Bebida para la Fiesta de Quecholli

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 628v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=339.

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: