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iquitqui.

Headword: 
iquitqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a weaver (always a woman prior to Spanish colonization)

Orthographic Variants: 
hiquitqui, yhquitqui
Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Hiquitqui, tetecac: tlatelicçani, paciotemani, moxiotiani, quâtzone, moquatzontiani. = The weaver [is] one who warps, presses the treadle with her feet, puts the weft in place, provides the heddle. [She is] a possessor of heddle leashes, a provider of heddle leashes. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 36.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yhquitqui yn Contlan pohui = tejedor de Contlan (Tulancingo, México, 1577)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 194–195.

themes: 
Occupations, Responsibilities
Textiles, Clothing
See also: 
iquitihualoni.
iquiti.
iquitiliztica.
iquitiliztli.