Tlamanca (MH811r)

Tlamanca (MH811r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph represents either the ethnic slur, Tlamanca ("Different"), the ethnicity Tlamanca (someone from the community of the same name), or it refers to Tlamaca ("He Serves"), and the "n" is intrusive. This glyph is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, looking to the viewer’s right. He has intersecting horizontal and vertical lines on his cheek.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The overbar in the gloss suggests that the omitted letter “n” should be taken seriously. This particular glyph and the one found on folio 843 verso appear to be more about ethnicity than service. Compare below.

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Face Paint or Tattoos
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

etnicidad, diferencia, sirviente, paje, servir, nombres de hombres

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

tlamanca, separate or different, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamanca
tlamaca, to serve, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamaca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Diferente, o Aparte

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 811r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=696&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: 

Tlamanca (MH843v)

Tlamaca (MH499r)

Tlamaca (MH538r)

Tlamaca (MH777r)

Tlamanca (MH814v)