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tianquizhuaque.

Headword: 
tianquizhuaque.
Principal English Translation: 

holders or possessors of the market

James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 190.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Seen to describe the people who paid the tax to the tlatoani's representative, first having collected it through unknown mechanisms inside the groups.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment