laurel branches used in penitential offerings (Karttunen); or fir branches (Anderson and Dibble translating Sahagún); or, a rope woven of reeds, branches, or grass
Angel Julián García Zambrano, "Ancestral Rituals of Landscape Exploration and Appropriation among Indigenous Communities in Early Colonial Mexico," in Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency, ed. Michel Conan (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University Press, 2007), 204.