Huexotzincatl (MH671v)

Huexotzincatl (MH671v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Huexotzincatl, (“One from Huexotzinco”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph shows a frontal view of a tree, presumably the white willow (huexotl). It has a leader and two branches, one each on right and left. The branches have from two to four fronds.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Compare this tree with the white willow in the Codex Mendoza. This glyph does not include any of the iconography for the culture of the local people, such as the man wearing the headband and labret.

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: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Keywords: 

árboles, sauces blancos, afiliación con un pueblo, nombres de hombres

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

Huexotzincatl, one from Huexotzinco, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huexotzincatl
huexo(tl), a white willow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huexotl
-ca(tl) (affiliation suffix), for place names ending in -co, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Uno de Huexotzinco (hoy Huejotzingo)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 671v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=423&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: 

Huexotzincatl (Mdz42r)