Huehuetzacan (MH839r)

Huehuetzacan (MH839r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Huehuetzacan (“Place Where Standing Drums Are Made”) is attested here as a man’s name, even as it appears to be a place name. The glyph shows a standing drum with the usual carved zigzag pattern in the legs. Coming out of the top appears to be a group of reeds (acatl), and if so, this would be a phonetic indicator for the -aca part of the name’s ending.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

One might expect huetzacqui (drum maker) to be the name instead of the place where drums are made. However, there was a famous Huehuetzin of Tollan (a land of reeds), mentioned in the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, who just might be the reference here, although it seems a stretch.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

luis vevetzacā

Gloss Normalization:

Luis Huehuetzacan

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Music, Song, Dance

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

spiky

zigzag

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

huehuetes, cañas, fabricante de tambores, atabales, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huetzacqui, one who makes standing drums, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huehuetzacqui
huehue(tl), a standing drum, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huehuetl
tzacua, to cover, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzacua
tzacui, to be closed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzacui
-can, place of, place where, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Lugar Donde Fabrican Atabales

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 839r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=752&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: