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michpanitl.

Headword: 
michpanitl.
Principal English Translation: 

fish banner(s)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 53.

Attestations from sources in English: 

njman qujmonpatla tlamacazque, ynic muchichioaia, ynjc mjhtotiaia, çan tlanenel, çan nepapã tlatqujtl, papalomatlatl, michpanjtl = These the priests replaced, adorned and dancing in a variety of different arrays, with butterfly nets and fish banners (16th century, Mexico City)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2—The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 53.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Music, Song, Dance
Religion (Indigenous)
See also: 
michin.
michin.
panitl.