a tribute item; a type of cloth (Quauhtinchan, sixteenth century) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 231.
a pre-Columbian game, still played today in Mesoamerica, with religious and divinatory elements; beans were cast onto a mat painted black, with stripes; Molina calls it a game of fortune; apparently it could also be played on a ball court
(central Mexico, early seventeenth century) Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 136–137.
land that could be alienated, closely associated with the family, interchangeable with huehuetlalli (and contrasted with tributary land) Rebecca Horn, Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519-1650 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 124–25; and, Rebecca Horn and James Lockhart, "Mundane Documents in Nahuatl," in in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory, Preliminary Version (e-book) (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Project, 2007, 2010), 8.