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Xicallanca.

Headword: 
Xicallanca.
Principal English Translation: 

an ethnic group, ancient inhabitants of Tamoanchan in the southern basin, Valley of Mexico
(Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 137, note 6.

Orthographic Variants: 
Xicalanca
Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

…yxquichime y yn tlatoque catca yn nolmeca yn xicallanca yn chane catca yn tlachiualtepec yn yacachto quipiaya yn imaltepeuh yn ipan maxitico yn tolteca = Estos son todos los tlatoque de los olmeda y los xicallanca, los que eran habitantes del Tlachiualtepetl, los que primero tenían su pueblo, en cuyo tiempo llegaron los tolteca. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 128, 152.

themes: 
Race, Ethnicity, Identity