Tlamanca (MH843v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph seems to represent the ethnic epithet, Tlamanca ("Different"), rather than the verb "Tlamaca" ("He Serves"), which might be taken as a servant.
The way this man has face paint and an ornament protruding from below his lower lip, (tentetl or tezacatl), suggests that he is a different ethnicity. Perhaps the label refers to someone from the community of the same name, Tlamanca, which is in the modern state of Puebla.
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A similar face paint, but even more pronounced, can be found on the Tlamanca glyph from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco on folio 811 recto. Compare these two against the Tlamaca glyphs below that are also a part of this collection.
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caspal tlamaca
Gaspar Tlamanca
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1560
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etnicidad, diferencia, server, serviente, mesero, paje, servidor, nombres de hombres
tlamanca, separate or different, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamanca
tlamaca, to serve (verb), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamaca
Diferente, o Aparte
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 843v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=761&st=image
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