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aztapanitl.

Headword: 
aztapanitl.
Principal English Translation: 

flag or banner decorated with heron feathers (see Mikulska)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

aztapanitl = "banderas de plumas de garza" (p. 97)
Katarzyna Mikulska, "Te hago bandera... Signos de banderas y sus significados en la expresión gráfica nahua", en Los códices mesoamericanos: registros de religión, política y sociedad, Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio y Juan José Batalla Rosado, coordinadores (Zinacantepec: El Colegio Mexiquense, 2016), 85–133.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Feathers
See also: 
aztatl.
panitl.