xopilli (Mdz20v)

This iconographic example of a warrior costume has been identified by Berdan and Anawalt (The Codex Mendoza, 1992, vol. 1, Appendix F) identify the costume as being associated with xopilli. The main costume is a two-tone green with a white (partial) loincloth and a red neckline. The large vertical device has a tear-drop shape with a fan of feathers at the top, joined by a yellow circle. The feathers in the teardrop shape are two-tone green, and inside that a red lining, followed by a turquoise blue lining, and the middle part is filled in with a yellow, criss-cross, mesh, or checked pattern. At the top of the fan--just above the yellow circle--a horizontal row of turquoise blue, a narrower line of white, and above that, red, then green and finally five large yellow feathers.