tribute cloth; a thick cloth presented by those who had to pay tributes (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
tequitilmatli. ropa gruessa, que dan los que tributan. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 105v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.