See an image that represents totolin in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
TŌTO-LIN/TŌTO-LI/IHUIQUEN/IHUIQUENTZIN/XIUH-COZCATL, Wild Turkey, domestic (Meleagris gallopavo) [FC: 53 Totoli]: “The name is also iuiquen, iuiquentzin, and xiuhcozca is [also] its name. It is a dweller in one’s home, which lives near and by one. The feathers are thick, the tail rounded. It has wings; it is heavy, not a flyer…. It leads the meats; it is the master….” There follow elaborate details relevant to turkey husbandry. This is the domestic Wild Turkey (not an oxymoron).
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 11 – Earthly Things, no. 14, Part XII, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1963); and, with quotation selections, synthesis, and analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.
auh huel patio in onicychtec, tomin, totoltin, tilmatli &c. = What I have stolen (money, domestic fowl, blankets, etc.) is costly.
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 139.
castillan civatotolin = a grown Castilian hen (Tlaxcala, 1545) Castillan is the noun "Castile," though used in effect adjectivally, while castil is a noun "chicken."
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 34, 210–211, n3.
hatlei y nemapupoloni atlei totoli atlei totoltetl cacavatl y tlaoli atlei = No hand towels, no turkeys, no turkey eggs, cacao or shelled maize (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 122–123.
tlaqualli, in totoli, in totoltetl in iztac tlaxcalli, in chipoac tlaxcalli = food: turkey hens, eggs, white tortillas, fine tortillas James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 92. Tequitl nitotolpixqui = My job is watching over the turkey hens.
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 112–113.
Auh in tonalpouhquj, in ijlhvil, in jmaceoal, in jnemac: atli, tlaqua, qujtlauhtia: auh amo ҫan quexqujch in qujmaca, ҫan mantiuh in totolin, auh centlamamalli in tlaqualli = And the desert, the merit, the lot of the soothsayer was to drink, to eat; and not just a little did they give him; he went [with] turkeys and a load of food (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 198–9.
yetetl totoli vi = three turkeys 6 reales (i.e. turkeys were worth 2 reales each) (Tulancingo, 1567)
James Lockhart collection, noted in a folder called "Land and Economy," citing the Tulancingo Collection, Special Collections, UCLA, Folder 1.
x iii hectotoltin = 13 grown turkey hens (European chickens?) (Culhuacan, 1580)
Testaments of Culhuacan (provisionally modified first edition), eds. Sarah Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, online version http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 19.
y castilan totolme iiii tetl = four Castillian hens (Culhuacan, 1580)
James Lockhart collection, noted in a folder called "Land and Economy," citing the Testaments of Culhuacan, p. 104.
totollin = gallinas (central Mexico, 1595)
James Lockhart collection, noted in a folder called "Land and Economy," citing Chimalpahin II, 44)
auh in tlamanj, in temanj, in male, in teacinj, no motlauhoça, mopotonja, motzomaia yn jma, yn icxi iztac totoliujtica = And those who had captured prisoners, who had captives whom they had taken, also anointed themselves with red; they covered themselves with feather down; their hands and feet were covered with white turkey feathers. (16th century, Mexico City)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2—The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 45.