Cuecuex (MH668v)

Cuecuex (MH668v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuecuex (“Anklet”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a right foot and part of a leg in profile, heading toward the viewer’s right. Three long objects (possibly golden bells) are tied around the ankle. The two bands that hold them onto the ankle are white and black.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Cuecuextli, tecuecuextli, and macuextli refer to adornments for wrists and ankles. They all contain the same syllable "-cuex-." Reduplication may have to do with multiple beads or bells, or perhaps the repetitious jingling sound that such adornments could cause.

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)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

tobillo, tobillera, nombres de hombres

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

cuecuex(tli), cord with stone beads, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuecuextli
macuex(tli), a beaded bracelet, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuextli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Tobillera

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 668v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=417&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: 

Xocoyol (Mdz2r)

Tecuecuex (MH565r)

Macuex (MH541v)

Cuecuex (MH668v)

Macuex (MH497r)

Tecuecuex (MH783v)