Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Costume (hierarchy name)
5. costume (mode of fashion)
6. [costume by function]
7. ceremonial costume
8. vestments (general ceremonial costume)

Anotations

Scope note:

Aztec vestments comprising articulated pieces of iridescent shell sewn in a pattern on a textile support. Derived from Nahuatl for "joined mother -of-pearl." Many examples are made from the Pacific mollusk Pinctada mazatlanica.