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tlatecayotl.

Headword: 
tlatecayotl.
Principal English Translation: 

lapidary arts

Attestations from sources in English: 

amo mochintin in tlatocatizque nopilhuan ynic quitecac ȳ tlahuitolli in tlatecayotl, in quauhxincayotl. yn tlacuilocayotl = Not all of my sons will be rulers. Hence he laid out [for them the various professions:] the [art of using the] bow, the lapidary art, wood sculpture, painting. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 134–135.

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