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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)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 219.

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.
>bibl>https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=608&st=image&r=-0.067,...

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