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tecpanpixqui.

Headword: 
tecpanpixqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a guardian of twenty (tribute payers), presuming this is short for centecpanpixqui; otherwise, perhaps this is one of the twenty tribute payers

Attestations from sources in English: 

This official in charge of collecting tribute from twenty men (representing families) in a given barrio will often have a numerical clarifier, such as matlactlitecpan... or centecpan.... (See the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs for an example, centecpanpixqui (MH535r).)

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