Cuetlachcue (MH901v)

Cuetlachcue (MH901v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuetlachcue (“Wolf Skirt”) is attested here as a woman’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a rectangular skirt (cueitl) with a wolf (cuetlachtli) design in the middle. The wolf is just a head, in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. The skirt also has a diamond mesh pattern and a border along the bottom. The border is white with three short vertical lines dividing it into four segments.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See one example of the head of a wolf (cuetlachtli), below, along with six other skirt patterns. Apparently, there were many skirt designs.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

acatha cuetlachcue

Gloss Normalization:

Ágatha Cuetlachcue (or Ágata Cuetlachcue)

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:

Animals: Misc.

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

border (red, plain, or patterned)

checked, cross-hatched, or mesh

Keywords:

lobos, faltas, textiles, nombres de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuetlach(tli), wolf, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuetlachtli
cue(itl), skirt, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cueitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Lobo-Falda

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 901v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=875&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).

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