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totomochtli.

Headword: 
totomochtli.
Principal English Translation: 

a dried corn husk (see Karttunen and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōtomōchtli, totomochtle, tutumustle, totomoxtle
IPAspelling: 
toːtomoːtʃtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

totomochtli. hojas secas dela mazorca de mayz.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 150v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TŌTOMŌCH-TLI dried corn husk / hojas secas de la mazorca de maíz (M) totomoxtle, hoja de mazorca (Z) [(1)Tp.242,(3)Zp.124,225]. T has the reflex of Ā for Ō in the third syllable.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 248.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents totomochtli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Martin Nesvig found an example of amaranth figurines made with "tutumustle de mayz." (1573; Tuxpan, Jalisco)
AGN, Inquisición vol. 116, exp. 2; personal communication, June 6, 2017.

Fernando Laposse, a modern Mexican artist, uses colored corn husks to create art. He calls the medium totomoxtle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r08iXfJ-CM

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Un Totomochtli aparece en la Historia Tolteca Chichimeca, "hijo de Xochicozcatl del teocalli Tecpanecatl." Y "en el año 1504 vuelve a despojar al tlahtoani Tezcacoacatl de otras tierras, pero esta vez por un acuerdo 'amistoso.'"
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Das Mexiko Projekt (1977), 89.

themes: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking