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xicalcoliuhqui.

Headword: 
xicalcoliuhqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a stepped fret design
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 99.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents xicalcoliuhqui in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

xicalcoliuhqui, yn ichimal = his shield with the stepped fret design
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 99.

themes: 
Art, Crafts
Weapons, Shields, Heraldry