quinamaca in qualli tochomitl, in uel quizqui, in amo quauhtlatlac in amo nexmicqui: quinamaca in chichiltic, in coztic, in texotli, in quiltic, in mouitli, in quappachtli, in iapalli, in suchipalli, in quilpalli, [noch] palli tlaztaleoalli, camiltic, tlapa tlatlapalaquia = He sells the good rabbit-hair [material] - well prepared, harmonious, not dulled with ashes. He sells it in red, yellow, sky blue, light green, dark blue, tawny, dark green, flower yellow, blue-green, [carmine], rose, brown. [With these] he dyes, he provides the colors. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 77.
ome costal yhuan ce pesotica tochomitl = two sacks and rabbit skin worth a peso (Saltillo, 1627)
Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 428–429.
tochominamacac in itequiuh naui tomi = The rabbit-hair sellers' tax is 4 tomines (Coyoacan, mid-sixteenth cent.)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 25, 142–143.
tochomitanatli = basket for rabbit hair
tochomio tilmahtli = rabbit-hair cape
(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
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), 205.
yhuan niquitoa centepan huipillatetectli yoan tochomitli auh monamacaz = And I declare that there is cloth on a loom for a huipil, and rabbit fur; it is to be sold (testament fragment from 1579)
The Testaments of Culhuacan, eds. S. L. Cline and Miguel León-Portilla (provisional) modified first edition, on line: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 2.
oquicouh tochomitl tlatlapalli mediopan = bought a striped cloth of various colors with rabbit fur, for half a tomín (n.d., sixteenth century)
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, 13.