Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Information Forms (hierarchy name)
5. information forms (objects)
6. document genres
7. [documents by function]
8. [identifying markings and symbols]
9. devices (symbols)
10. insignias (devices)
11. tlahuiztli

Anotations

Scope note:

A Nahua insignia formed from two or three short banners made of beaten gold fastened to tall, vertical poles with quetzal-feather tufts attached to a wooden frame and carried as a back device. Part of the war costume of postclassic Nahua tlahtohqueh (rulers) and pipiltin (nobles), it was manufactured by amantecah (featherworkers) and presented to particularly brave warriors in postclassic central Mexico. It is also part of the array of Payinal, an aspect of the deity Huitzilopochtli.