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tanned leather; cured hide; or, a dead person's skin
See an image that represents cuetlaxtli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
yuhqui cuetlaxtli = like a tanned leather wineskin
oquino qui ynchi chihualatl, y pan Yno quí moquentítoía. yn mique cuetlaxtlí = o:quino:qui in chi:chi:hua:la:tl i:pan in o:quimoque:ntitoia in miqueh cuetlaxtli = he spilled the breast milk onto the one dressed in the dead one's skin
yn intzoncuetlax quitlalia mexica = the head leather that the Mexica put on (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
tlayacaque tlapizque tlaocoltlapiztaque quimitetzaque yn itlapitzal quimicahui tabul çano yuhqui quiquimiluque mochi ycuetlaxtl luto aocmo çeca caquiztia = iban por delante los músicos de viento, que fueron tocando tristemente, taparon las bocas de sus instrumentos de viento por luto; el tambor, asimismo lo envolvieron con cueros de luto, ya no se escuchaba bien. (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)