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cuauhamatl.

Headword: 
cuauhamatl.
Principal English Translation: 

paper made from trees (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhamatl
Attestations from sources in English: 

ioan iztac quauhamatl = and white paper made of the bark of trees (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, 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), 68.

themes: 
Paper
Plants, Trees, Flora
Writing, Literacy