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cuachnamacac.

Headword: 
cuachnamacac.
Principal English Translation: 

a seller of large cotton capes

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 63.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachnamacac
Attestations from sources in English: 

This person is also called "tilmapan tlacatl." The corresponding images associated with cape selling show women as the sellers. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), see images 119 and 120 that the translators connect to chapter 17.

themes: 
Markets, Commerce, Economy
Textiles, Clothing