See an image that represents panitl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
"Pamitl is found primarily throughout the northern and eastern flanks of the Valley of Mexico, while panitl is essentially restricted to Mexico, the Tepanec heartland, and perhaps Colhuacan and Chalco."
José Jorge Klor de Alva, The Work of Bernardino de Sahagún: Pioneer Ethnographer of Sixteenth-century Aztec Mexico (Albany, NY: Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, the University at Albany, State University of New York, 1988), 323.
cencā ivian in iativitze, quiniacana in quachpanitl = they came very slowly, with the standard leading them
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 212.
teucuitlapanitl, quetzalpanitl, yoā teucuitlacozcatl = golden banners, banners of precious feathers, and golden necklaces (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 96.
mamallitli, tecuitlapanitl, yn imac, icac = the fire sticks, the golden banner are in his hands
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 95.