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challi.

Headword: 
challi.
Principal English Translation: 

jade
John Bierhorst, A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos (1985), 75. He refers to the Florentine Codex, Book 11, 223, quoting: "but it comes from nowhere." This could be the "chal" in chalchihuitl. Some also call this greenstone, jadeite, or "cultural jade,"(SW)

themes: 
Jewelry, Adornment, Accouterments
Stones, Masonry
Turquoise, Greenstone/Jade
See also: 
chalchihuitl.