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cuachichictli.

Headword: 
cuachichictli.
Principal English Translation: 

the hairstyle of the cuachic warriors, or the "shorn ones," and was characterized by the stiff ridge crest going along the head (sixteenth century, central Mexico)
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 112.

IPAspelling: 
kwɑːtʃitʃiktɬi
Attestations from sources in English: 

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

See also our entry for cuachichictli, the word that referred to a crown worn by a member of the Catholic clergy.

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