tlacoquixtiliztli.

Headword:

tlacoquixtiliztli.

Principal English Translation:

the passing of twigs through the tongue and ears; perforation; self-sacrifice (a pre-Columbian ceremony)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 72, 73, 198.

IPAspelling:

tɬɑkoːkiːʃtiːlistɬi

Attestations from sources in English:

We see this mentioned in the Florentine Codex as a punishment for vice. Specifically, twigs were to be passed through the ear lobe and the tongue. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 33.

themes:

Anatomy

Crime, Punishment

Gifts, Offerings, Sacrificial Rites

Religion (Indigenous)

Wood, wooden material