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huilacatl.

Headword: 
huilacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of snail; or, a type of flute

Tlachia [en línea]. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México [Ciudad Universitaria, México D.F.]: 2012 [ref del 15-11-2023]. Disponible en la Web https://tlachia.iib.unam.mx/glifos/huilacatl

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

huilacatia = hacer y tañer flautas de carrizo o pitos
Huilacatitlan = lugar de piteros
Juan Nepote, El lector científico (2023), 762.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Music, Song, Dance
See also: 
huilaca.