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tequicalco.

Headword: 
tequicalco.
Principal English Translation: 

tribute house, clearing house for the coatequitl (or cohuatequitl) and tribute in kind (apparently always used in this locative form rather than the absolutive "tequicalli") (p. 154); the city tribute house, which is always in the locative form (p. 23).
The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 154.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns
Tributes, Taxation, Service