Cuauhpiloltzin (MH686r)

Cuauhpiloltzin (MH686r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuauhpiloltzin (“Eagle Feather Pendant”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an eagle feather pendant (cuauhpilolli) that was usually tied onto someone. It comprises two eagle feathers that turn out to the left and right at the bottom. Above the pendant is quincunx shape that looks much like a chalchihuitl. How it enters into this person’s name is unclear.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Note what appear to be similar pendants in various glyphs below. Typically, the pendants have down feathers at the top, covering the junction where the larger feathers come together. One pendant is worn on the head of an eagle. Perhaps some of these pendants are made with the feathers of the quecholli (perhaps a Roseate Swan), given that the device appears in place names that include a root of quechol-.

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:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Feathers

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:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

quincunx or quatrefoil

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

undetermined as yet

Keywords:

águilas, quincunces, plumas, nombres de hombres, feathers

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauhpilol(li), eagle feather pendant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhpilolli

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 686r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=452&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).

Orthography:

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: