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zacuampanitl.

Headword: 
zacuampanitl.
Principal English Translation: 

the flag or banner that was decorated with troupial bird feathers (see Mikulska)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Zacuampanitl = 'banderas de pluma de zacuán o turpial' (Primeros Memoriales, f. 73v, véase figura 3a). (p. 97)
Katarzyna Mikulska, "Te hago bandera... Signos de banderas y sus significados en la expresión gráfica nahua", en Los códices mesoamericanos: registros de religión, política y sociedad, Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio y Juan José Batalla Rosado, coordinadores (Zinacantepec: El Colegio Mexiquense, 2016), 85–133.

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