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yellow ochre, a dyeing medium
See an image that represents tecozahuitl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
tecozahuitl..."in jtoca itech qujztica tetl, ioan coçauhquj. q. n. tetl coztic, coztic tetl moteci, tlapalonj: tlacujlolonj tlaquauhnextilonj:" = "Its name comes from tetl [stone] and coçauhqui [yellow]; that is, it is a yellow stone; yellow in the form of a stone. It is ground up. It is a dyeing medium, a painting medium, a means of making things especially brilliant."
tecozauhuitl = yellow ochre