Zacacue (MH729r)

Zacacue (MH729r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Zacacue (“Grass Skirt”), shows a horizontal group of vertical pieces of grass or straw (zacatl), connected at the top by a horizontal piece of perhaps cotton cloth in a strip. The cloth strip has extra length at both ends for tying the skirt (cueitl) around the waist.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This may be a ritual garment.

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (female)
Gender (male)
Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Religion (Indigenous)
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
tied, bound, or bundled
Keywords: 

faldas, sayas, naguas, textiles, ropa, prendas, zacate

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

zaca(tl), grasses, hay, straw, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl
cue(itl), skirt, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cueitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Falda de Zacate

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 729r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=536&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Zacatilma (MH574r)

Zacatilma (MH498r)

Zacaquen (MH790r)

cueitl (MH553r)

Acxocue (MH632v)