Cuapitz (MH852v)

Cuapitz (MH852v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuapitz (literally “The Head Played a Wind Instrument”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a musical horn curving up and out from the top of the head of the tribute payer himself. The instrument looks vaguely like a chirimía (a ceramic flute). It has hatching that gives it a little three-dimensionality, and about five volutes (sound scrolls) come out of the flared top of the instrument.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is the first Cuapitz hieroglyph in this collection (as of February 2025), but there are some instruments worth comparing.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juo quapitz

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Cuapitz

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)
phrase or sentence
visual sound
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Music, Song, Dance
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition, Languages
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
three-dimensionality
volute(s)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

música, chirimías, instrumentos, cabezas, nombres de hombres

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

cua(itl), the human head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuaitl
pitza, to play a wind instrument, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pitza
tlapitzqui, a wind instrument player, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapitzqui
chirimía, a single-reed wind instrument, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chirim%C3%ADa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Cabeza Tocó un Instrumento de Viento

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 852v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=777&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: 
"q" for c
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tlapitzqui (MH852r)

Quetzallapitzqui (MH711r)