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Michhuacatlalli.

Headword: 
Michhuacatlalli.
Principal English Translation: 

the land of the Michhuaca (or Michhuahca) people, i.e., the people of what is today Michoacan (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
Michhuahcatlalli
Attestations from sources in English: 

A drawing in the Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, folio 230 verso, for this region shows a man who is a trumpet player and a woman who is weaving with a backstrap loom tied to a tree.
(1570s, central Mexico)
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 230v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/230v/images/5bc2e10a-... . Accessed 8 January 2026.

themes: 
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
See also: 
Michhuacan.
Michhuacatlaca.
Michhuacayotl.