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Nanotzin.
Headword:
Nanotzin.
Principal English Translation:
possibly a tumpline; also, a Chimalpaneca, a woman who spoke up and critiqued the elevation of the leaders of Quauhtinchan as tlahtoque; she would have preferred to see Ayapacatl made the tlahtoani (Quauhtinchan, sixteenth century)
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents Nanotzin in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
This is reverential for Nanotl, a name found in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 765r. The glyph looks much like a tump line.
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