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chamolli.

Headword: 
chamolli.
Principal English Translation: 

scarlet parrot feather(s) (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1959), 1.

Orthographic Variants: 
chamoli, chamolin
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

in quitzintique pochtecaiotl, iehoantin in, in pochtecatlatoque: itzcoatzin, tziuhtecatzin. Inic puchtecatia, in quinamacaia: çan iehoatl in cueçal, ioan cuitlatexotli, ioan chamoli = Those who started the commerce were the principal merchants Itzcoatzin and Tziuhtecatzin. Thus did they engage in trade: they sold only red arara and blue and scarlet parrot feathers. (16th century, Mexico City)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1959), 1.

themes: 
Feathers
See also: 
chamolin.