a chess board; perhaps also a patolli board? (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
patoluapalli
Alonso de Molina:
patoluapalli. tablero de axedrez. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 80r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.