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atlacuihuani.

Headword: 
atlacuihuani.
Principal English Translation: 

a wooden tool for extracting water (see Molina); or, a ceramic pitcher for fetching water (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
atlacuiuani
Alonso de Molina: 

atlacuiuani. herrada para sacar agua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 8r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents atlacuihuani in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

atlacuihuani = water pitcher
Frances F. Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt, Codex Mendoza (1992), v. 1, 172.

themes: 
Technology, Tools
Water