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SELBR] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENT VI 195 



tiempo antiguo la cogia (la secla) Don Antonio Tlauitoltzin cacique 

 y gobernador que fuo do esta ciudad, liijo de Nozalmalpiltzintli (" and 

 in ancient times Don Antonio Tlauitoltzin, who was cacique and 

 governor of that city, son of Xezahualpiltzintli, gathered it (the 



silk)"). 



It is not so easy to determine the other persons on our fragment. 

 Since Tlauitoltzin only reigned until the year 1545, the event to 

 wliicli our fragment refers must have occurred before that date. At 

 tliat time the viceroy, Don Antonio de Mendoza, was still reigning — 

 from the 3^ear 1534. The bishop of Santo Domingo, Don Sebastian 

 Ramirez de Fuenleal, Avas president of the audiencia until 1535. 

 His oydores were the licenciados Juan de Salmeron, Alonzo Maldo- 

 nado, Zeynos (or Zaynos, as it is also written), afterwards president 

 of the audiencia, and Quiroga." The names of Spaniards were fre- 

 quently reproduced by the Mexicans in hieroglj^Dhs, which are 

 often perfectly intelligible, but often too very hard to understand 

 and, without doubt, frequentl}^ do not represent the name itself, but 

 a nickname by which the person in question was known among the 

 Indians. It is well known that Pedro de Alvaraclo went by the name 

 Tonatiuh, " sun ", among the Indians. He is therefore hieroglyph- 

 ically designated by a picture of the sun. The viceroy Antonio de 

 Mendoza is designated in Codex Telleriano-Remensis by a spear, A\ 

 figure 43; the third viceroy, Luis de Velasco, in the Pintura del 

 Gobernador, Alcaldes y Regidores de Mexico (Osuna codex), by I, 

 ■ which is composed of the tongue of eloquence, an eye, and, above it, 

 another object, difficult to explain. The name Gallego is expressed 

 in the same manuscript by in, and that of Doctor Vasco de Poga by n. 

 Both are easily imderstood. In f)i Ave have the figures of a house 

 (cal-li) and of beans (e-tl), or Cal-e; and n is explained by the fact 

 that poc-tli in Mexican means " smoke ". The hieroglyph for Doctor 

 Zorita, r, the head of a quail, is also perfectly obvious, because (^"ol-in 

 is the Mexican Avord for quail. But o for Doctor VillanueA^a, and ]? 

 for Doctor \'illalobos still puzzle me; so does q for Doctor Bravo. 

 The hieroglyph, -s-, for Doctor Zeynos seems to represent the prickly 

 point of a leaf, and t, the hieroglyph for the fiscal Maldonado, is 

 the picture of a pair of Avooden t(mgs and a red ( red-hot object 

 AA'hich is held in their grasp. Lastly, the hieroglyph for Doctor 

 Horozco, /i, is n'lost strikingly like that of San Francisco, /. 



Most of the hieroglyphs Avhicli I have mentioned here belong to 

 persons of a later time than that to Avhich our fragment VI (plate xi) 

 belongs. Unfortunatel3^ but fcAV hieroglyphs of Spanish names of 

 this earlier jjeriod are positiA^eh' knoAvn to us, and thcA' are not, to be 

 interpreted at haphazard, as can readily be seen from the examples 

 just given. 



" Motolini.'i, v. 3, chap. .3. 



