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micca tetlacuilolli.

Headword: 
micca tetlacuilolli.
Principal English Translation: 

head stone, a stone for a burial (see Molina); the implication is that it has writing carved on it and it is related to a death

Alonso de Molina: 

micca tetlacuilolli. piedra de sepultura.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 56r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Death
Writing, Literacy