choloa (MH888v)

choloa (MH888v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the verb to flee (choloa) shows a bare human leg and foot in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. A footprint peeks from behind the calf of the leg.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Those who had "fled" no longer live in the pueblo where they were expected to contribute tributes in kind, cash, or labor. Many people fled as the epidemics reduced population levels drastically and the amount owed was either not lowered or it took much petitioning and a long time to obtain redress. Running away was an act of resistance to unreasonable colonial economic demands.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

ocholoque

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Footprint(s), human
Movement
Tributes, Taxation, Service
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
Keywords: 

footprints, huellas, huir, correr, brincar, escapar tributos

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

choloa, to flee or to jump, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/choloa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

huir

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 888v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=849&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: 

choloa (MH533r)

choloa (MH560r)

choloa (MH633v)

Chololtecatl (MH647v)

Tecuhcholoa (MH737v)