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tlacaehuatl.

Headword: 
tlacaehuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a flayed human skin
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 9: The Merchants", fol. 6v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/9/folio/6v/images/0 Accessed 27 August 2025.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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