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macuilpanitl.

Headword: 
macuilpanitl.
Principal English Translation: 

the "five flag," which was a group of five colored flags that were grouped into a large fan (see Mikulska)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"Otras insignias de PM son macuilpanitl o 'cinco bandera', que efectivamente constaba de cinco banderas de colores colocadas como en un abanico (f. 77r, véase figura 3b)". (p. 97)
Katarzyna Mikulska, "Te hago bandera... Signos de banderas y sus significados en la expresión gráfica nahua", en Los códices mesoamericanos: registros de religión, política y sociedad, Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio y Juan José Batalla Rosado, coordinadores (Zinacantepec: El Colegio Mexiquense, 2016), 85–133.