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cotzehuatl.

Headword: 
cotzehuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

leather band for the calf of the leg
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 19, 57.

Orthographic Variants: 
cotzeoatl
Attestations from sources in English: 

ca oconcujc in tepeiotl, in xiuhvitzolli, in matacaxtli, in matemecatl, in cotzeoatl, in tentetl, in nacochtli = for he hath taken the peaked cap, the turquoise diadem, the maniple, the wrist band, the leather band about the calf of the leg, the lip plug, the ear plug (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 19.

themes: 
Jewelry, Adornment, Accouterments
Leather