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Tecanman.

Headword: 
Tecanman.
Principal English Translation: 

a temple in Tenochtitlan where captives were adorned with white turkey down; the captives (xipeme) were already wearing flayed skins of men, too

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 48–49.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Singing and dancing took place at Tecanman on the first of four days prior to the slaying of the ritual representative of Tezcatlipoca during the ritual month of Toxcatl.
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 68.