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Even in Humboldt's time, when there was no copper coinage, they were used as small change, six for a halfpenny; and Stephens says the Central Americans use them to this day. A mat in Mexican is petlatl, and thence a basket made of matting was called petlacalli "mathouse."
In fact, the description in verse 7 applies to Tenochtitlan rather than the singer's own town. But the text does not admit this translation. 10. petiatolini, I have derived from petlatl, suspecting an error in transcription. The reference is to the rushes in the mat on which the singer stood. The ordinary sad burden of the Nahuatl poets is repeated with emphasis in this plaint.
1. impetlatl; the ordinary meaning of petlatl is a mat or rug; it is here to be taken in its figurative sense of power or authority, chiefs and other prominent persons being provided with mats at the councils, etc.
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