tochiacatl.

Headword: 
tochiacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a special, brown cotton thread used to knot the hair of a ritual representative of the deity Tezcalipoca (or Titlacauan, Titlacahuan) in the month of Toxcatl

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 64.

themes: 
Textiles, Clothing