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tecpilotl.

Headword: 
tecpilotl.
Principal English Translation: 

the headdress of early Texcocan (or Tetzcocan) rulers
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 146.

IPAspelling: 
teːkpiloːtɬ
Attestations from sources in English: 

Possibly had white feathers, and may have been the same as the iztac ihuitl.
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 147.

themes: 
Feathers
Jewelry, Adornment, Accouterments