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amanechihualli.

Headword: 
amanechihualli.
Principal English Translation: 

paper vestments, paper ornamentation
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.

Orthographic Variants: 
amanechichihualli
Attestations from sources in English: 

auh nappa teixpan neci, teixpan qujxtilo, teittitilo, teiximachtilo, qujntlamamaca, qujnmamaca yn jmamanechichioal = And four times they appeared before the people. They were looked at; they were made to be seen by the people; they were made known. They gave them and provided them their paper vestments. (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.

themes: 
Jewelry, Adornment, Accouterments
Paper
Religion (Indigenous)
Textiles, Clothing