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toloicpalli.

Headword: 
toloicpalli.
Principal English Translation: 

bundles of unwoven green reeds [tolli, tules] made into seats [icpalli] for early rulers who wore rawhide capes, indicative of their Chichimec origins (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Thelma Sullivan, "Tlatoani and tlatocayotl in the Sahagún manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 225–238. See esp. p. 234.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Later rulers, beginning with Itzcoatl, would sit on the tepotzoicpalli, which was a woven reed seat with a back rest. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Thelma Sullivan, "Tlatoani and tlatocayotl in the Sahagún manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 225–238. See esp. p. 234.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance