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tzoncuetlaxtli.

Headword: 
tzoncuetlaxtli.
Principal English Translation: 

hair leather, or headdress of leather thongs
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 143.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Headbands tended to be either white, or red-white twisted, and red. Then were usually tied at the back of the head. They could be combined with axtatelli head devices. In these examples, they tie is over the forehead.
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 140, 143 fig. 30.

themes: 
Jewelry, Adornment, Accouterments
Leather