Tecuach (MH662r)

Tecuach (MH662r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tecuach (“Small Cape”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a rectangular piece of fabric (cuachtli) with a mesh pattern. It apparently represents a small cape (tecuachtli). The half of a horizontal stone (tetl) that appears below the cloth is there as a phonetic indicator that this name starts with Te-.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The tecuachtli was a small woven cloth that was used as a currency, exchanged in trades, but also worn. Larger cloths, also worn as capes, were called cuachtli. Finer ones worn by nobles were referred to as tilmatli.

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
striped
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
rectangular
woven
diagonal or angled
checked, cross-hatched, or mesh
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

telas, mantas pequeñas, tejidos, medios de intercambio, nombres de hombres

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

tecuach(tli), a small cape used as a medium of exchange, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuachtli
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
cuach(tli), large cape or cloak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuachtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Manta Pequeña

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 662r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=404&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: 

cuachtli (Mdz30r)

Tilma (MH649r)

Tliltilma (MH625r)