yn centetl nicantotoltecciztli etetl cacavatl ipatihv yn castil ytecciz ontetl cacavatl ypatihv = One turkey egg is worth 3 cacao beans. A chicken egg is worth 2 cacao beans. (Tlaxcala, 1545)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 1, 210–211.
in mopitza tecciztli, yoan acatecciztli = conch shells and reed pipes were blown (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
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), 83.
Conch shells (tecciztli) are given as some of the essential items found in the "devil's houses" (Sahagún).
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 117.in ie iuhquj njman tlapitzalo, tecciztli mopitza, qujqujztli, mapipitzoa, yoan cujco: cujcapan tlapitzalpan, in oalmoiacatia: motecpana in cozcateca, qujquequechpanotiuj, aztapanjtl, qujiaoaloa in temalcatl = When this was done, then trumpets were sounded; conch shells, large sea shells, were blown; men put their fingers in their mouths and whistled, and there was singing. With singing of songs and blowing of trumpets, they arrived. The Cozcateca placed themselves in order, their shoulders decked with feather banners, and they encircled the offering-stone. (16th century, Mexico City)
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), 50.