Huecatlacatl (MH712v)

This black-line drawing (with some added green and red coloring) of the simplex glyph for the personal name Huecatlacatli is attested here as a man's name. The full interpretation of this glyph still requires some thought. It shows a man (tlacatl, person) in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. This man has a load on his back, which is attached to him by way of a tumpline over his forehead. What seem to be red and green leaves poke out of the top of a container. The container has two sets of parallel, horizontal lines for decoration, or perhaps as reinforcements. The left arm of the man reaches back to hold onto the tumpilne at about shoulder height. This gear is usually what long-distance merchants used for carrying the goods to the capital. So, perhaps the suggestion is that this man comes from a distance (hueca).