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quilpiqui.

Headword: 
quilpiqui.
Principal English Translation: 

one who gathers quelites; a commoner, a vassal, a macehualli

(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 153, nota 5.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Plural: quilpique.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

…tlaxicmocaquitican yn inchoquiz yn imixayo yn amomaceualhuan yn quillpique yn quaquauhque…. = Atiendan al llanto y lágrimas de sus maceualli los quilpique, los leñadores. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 133, 153.

themes: 
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites