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ixquemitl.

Headword: 
ixquemitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a special skirt or shift given as a gift to the parents of a newborn girl (see Sahagún)

Attestations from sources in English: 

intla cioatl, cueitl, vipilli: aҫo cenqujmjlli, aҫo onqujmjlli. Injn itoca ixquemjtl = if [the baby] were female, [with] skirts, shifts, perhaps twenty or forty. The name of this was ixquemitl (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 196.

See also cama ixquemitl, referring to a bed cloth.

themes: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrificial Rites
Textiles, Clothing
Women, Men, Gender