tecuachtli.

Headword: 
tecuachtli.
Principal English Translation: 

a small cape, sometimes used in the autonomous era (i.e. before European colonization) and in early Spanish colonial times as a currency (see attestations); a small cotton mantle

Orthographic Variants: 
tequachtli
Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tecuachtli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

a small cotton mantle
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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), 79.

a small cape (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, 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, 1978), 6, 7.

themes: 
Money, Coins, Wealth
Textiles, Clothing
See also: 
cuachtli.