Mocuicalohua (MH759v)

Mocuicalohua (MH759v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

Description: This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mocuicalohua differs little from similar glyphs for speech. The glyphic component is built right onto the tribute payer's head, with the song scrolls floating up from his mouth. One curves up and one curves down. An adequate translation of the gloss is a work in progress.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The visuals associated with the verb, cuica, or the noun, cuicatl, are typically volutes that look like speech scrolls, but they can have added designs that make them more elaborate than the spoken word.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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)

visible sound

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Music, Song, Dance

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

volute(s)

Keywords:

canciones, cantar, nombres de hombres, volutas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuica, to sing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuica

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 759v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=597&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).

Orthography:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

intrusive cedilla

Historical Contextualizing Image: