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amaneapantli.

Headword: 
amaneapantli.
Principal English Translation: 

a rich cloak worn by the indigenous nobility (see Molina), made of paper; also amaneapanalli
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 100.

Alonso de Molina: 

amaneapantli. manta rica con que se arrean y atauian los caciques.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

y yamaneapanal = his paper stole.
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 100.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

amaneapantli: manta rica conque se arrean y atauian los caciques
Katunob vol. 9 (1976), 28.

themes: 
Paper
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Textiles, Clothing