tlalpiloni (Mdz43r)
This multicolored painting is an iconographic example for the noun tlalpiloni, a feather hair binder with double tassels that was a type of insignia. The double tassels are connected by a red tie with a knot at top and center. The tassels are turquoise-blue, red, yellow, and different shades of green. This device is very much like the quetzaltlalpiloni that is also a part of this digital collection.
Stephanie Wood
una pieça de tlalpiloni de plumas
rricas desta hechura q` ser
via / de insinia rreal
una pieza de tlalpiloni de plumas ricas de esta hechura que servía de insignia real
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
plumas, pelo, insignias, atado
tlalpiloni, a special hair binder with double feather tassels, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalpiloni
(unas insignias en forma de adorno de borlas de plumas quetzales para el pelo)
Stephanie Wood
Codex Mendoza, folio 43 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 96 of 188.
Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)