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tlacahuacalli.
Headword:
tlacahuacalli.
Principal English Translation:
a carrying frame for holding a person in a reclining position; see huacalli and see the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, where the frame may be on fire, and if so, perhaps this is a frame for carrying a dead body, https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacahuacalli-tr25v
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents tlacahuacalli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).