nemapopohualoni. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

nemapopohualoni.

Principal English Translation:

a towel for wiping the hands (see Karttunen); a cloth napkin; this was a tribute item at least in Morelos (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants:

nemapopoaloni, nemāpohpōhualōni, nemapupoloni

IPAspelling:

nemɑːpohpoːwɑloːni

Frances Karttunen:

NEMĀPOHPŌHUALŌNI towel for wiping the hands / instrumento para limpiarse las manos (C), paño de manos o toalla (M for nemapopoaloni tilmatli) [(1)Cf.45v]. See MĀPOHPŌHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 165.

Attestations from sources in English:

See an image that represents nemapopohualoni in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

The codex Sierra-Texupan includes a glyph or picture of napkins on a tablecloth and uses the term "nemapopoualoni."
https://bidilaf.buap.mx/objeto.xql?id=48281&busqueda=Texupan&action=search

zetetl nemapopovaloni = one hand towel (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 120–121.

hatlei y nemapupoloni atlei totoli atlei totoltetl cacavatl y tlaoli atlei = No hand towels, no turkeys, no turkey eggs, cacao or shelled maize (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 122–123.

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Anatomy

Textiles, Clothing