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tequihuaque.

Headword: 
tequihuaque.
Principal English Translation: 

officials of the town council, members of the cabildo; those in charge of tributes

Attestations from sources in English: 

altepehuaque tlatoque tequihuaque = the citizens, the rulers, the officeholders
Stephanie Wood, Mapa de Tolcayuca f. 3r., The Mapas Project, University of Oregon; write [email protected] for access to web pages. James Lockhart assisted with the translation

timochyntin yn tequihuaque = we, all the officials
Byron McAfee, translation of the Techialoyan manuscript from Santa Mara Zolotepec or Ocelotepec; University of California, Los Angeles, Special Collections

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

auh ynic yecauh cali bigas ca ytlatetemol tequihuaque Francisco Diaz merino Fracisco Coxolitl tepixque yhuan hocçequitin tequihuaque. = Para terminar la casa, las vigas fueron buscadas por los tequihuaque Francisco Días, merino y Francisco Coxolitl, tepixque y otros tequihuaque. (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 240–241.

timo[c]hyntin tequihuaque = nosotros, todos los funcionarios
Anneliese Monnich, "El Altepeamatl de Ocoyacac, México," Indiana 2 (1974), 171.

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Occupations, Responsibilities