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yacualli.

Headword: 
yacualli.
Principal English Translation: 

a special type of necklace, presented to girls when they were entering the calmecac (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
hijaqualli, yaqualli
Attestations from sources in English: 

Niman qujmachiotia in ie achi qualton, mjtoa qujquapaxotla, ijelpan qujtetequj: auh in oc conetontli qujcozcatia hijaqualli = When she was already somewhat grown, they placed a marking on her, it was said; they scarified her hip, they incised her chest; and when she was yet a small child, they provided her with the yaqualli necklace (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), 210–1.

themes: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence
Education
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrificial Rites
Jewelry, Adornment, Accouterments
Women, Men, Gender