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Atempanecatl.

Headword: 
Atempanecatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a high captain with a long labret, leather ear plug, a headband with eagle-feather tassels binding his hair (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
atenpanecatl
Attestations from sources in English: 

atenpanecatl = the Atempanecatl (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), 77.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

niman ie quipehualtia in itetzauhtlatol, quinçentlalia quinnechicohua in ixquichtin pipiltin tequihuaque tiacahuan: tlacochcalca, cuauhnochtli, tescacohuacatl, in atenpanecatl, tiçociyahuacatl, zaso quexquichtin tiacahuan = Después [Moquíhuix] comenzó [a lanzar] sus amenazas; juntó y reunió a todos los principales y a los capitanes guerreros: al tlacochcálcatl, al cuauhnochtli, al tezcacohuácatl, al atempanécatl, al tizociahuácatl, a todos sus guerreros. (Mexico City, c. 1572)
Ana Rita Valero de García Lascuráin and Rafael Tena, Códice Cozcatzin (México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 1994), 101.

themes: 
Anatomy
Appearance
Feathers
Jewelry, Adornment, Accouterments
Leather
Politics, Power, Governance