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a white heron (egret) headdress (see attestations); a type of plumage found on garments (see Alvarado Tezozomoc); also a person's name (attested male)
aztatzontli = heron headdress, possibly from a white heron (egret)
matheo astaço (the glyph next to the gloss for this name shows a heron, aztatl, and human hair, tzontli) (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
plumage que llaman aztatzontli (fines del s. XVI o principios del s. XVII; México central)
Auh in quimamaque[ue] tlahuiztli casco chimalli azta [Tachado: quatatapa] tzo[n]tli Aztavaca[n] tlatquitl. Auh nohuiya[n] huallaque[ue] yn altepetl ypa[n] tlaca tlatoq[ue] moch mitotico yhua[n] moch valla yn intlahuiz in tlamamalli. = Y cargaron insignias, casco y escudos, el aztatzontli que era propiedad de Aztauacan. Y vinieron los señores [tlatoque] de todos los pueblos, todos vinieron a bailar y vinieron todas sus insignias, sus cargas (ca. 1582, México)