Xelhuan (MH873v)

Xelhuan (MH873v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xelhuan (the name of a famous Chichimec ancestor”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows what may be a feathered headdress, which was apparently emblematic of this ancestor, as many of the glyphs for his name seem to involve feathered headdresses.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The verb xeloa, means to distribute or disperse things, which may somehow come into play, but this is not obvious. The spelling of the name, beginning with X, seems to be a challenge for some tlacuiloque. One example in this collection is glossed as though starting with G, and this one begins with an S.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juo. selvā

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Xelhuan

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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Feathers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

plumas, quetzales, tocados, etnicidades nombres famosos, plumas, tocados, nombres de hombres

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

Xelhuan, name of a Chichimec ancestor, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Xelhuan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

(un ancestro chichimeca famoso)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 873v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=819&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: 
"s" for x
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xelhuan (MH536r)

Xelhuan (MH536r)

Xelhuan (MH617r)

Xelhuan (MH828r)