El oficial de cintas o talabartes, cuando los corta, unos corta angostos y otros anchos. A todos les echa hebillas para ceñirse; otros corta angostos y gordos; otros ni muy anchos ni muy angostos; unos amarillos, otros blancos, otros prietos y otros bermejos o colorados.
\nEl zapatero corta primero los zapatos, y después échales suelas y cóselos, apretándolos muy bien, unos angostos y otros anchos, unos muy bien hechos y pulidos, que no son sino de señores.
\nEl buhonero compra junto para volver a vender por menudo, como son papel, tixeras, cuchillos, agujas, paños, lienzos, orillas o manillas, o cuentas, y otras cosas muchas que él puede comprar junto.
\nLa que embarra las cabezas con unas yerbas llamadas xiuhquílitl, que son buenas contra las enfermedades de la cabeza, tiene por oficio buscar el barro negro y traerlo al tiánguiz para ponello en la cabeza o los que lo quieren, y echar encima las dichas yerbas, siendo molidas y mezcladas con las hojas de un árbol que se dice huixachi,
\n","citation_key":"citation_lopez_spanish_transcription","citation":{"en":["Spanish by López Austin & García Quintana 2000"],"es":["Español por López Austin & García Quintana 2000"]}},{"id":"46af6653-d7fa-434c-a63e-c3a5554cb29c","choice":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["spanish translation"],"es":["traducción al español"]},"column":"spanish","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(García Garagarza 2023)","markdown":"The artisan of sashes or belts, when he is cutting them, cuts some of them narrow and others wide. He puts fastening clasps on all of them. He cuts others narrow and thick, and others neither too wide nor too narrow. Some are yellow, others are white, others are dark colored, and others are vermilion or red.\n\nThe shoemaker first cuts the shoes, and then he puts soles on them and sews them, tightening them very well. [He cuts] some narrow and others wide. Some of them are so very well made and refined that they are exclusively for the lords.\n\nThe peddler buys wholesale to resell in retail [things] such as paper, scissors, knives, needles, small pieces of cloth, canvas, bracelets, bangles, or beads, as well as many other things that he can buy wholesale.\n\nThe job of the woman[^103] who plasters heads with some herbs called _xiuhquilitl_, which are effective for the ailments of the head, is to look for black mud, bring it to the _tianquiz_ in order to put it on the heads of those who want it, and put these herbs on [their heads] once [the herbs] are ground and mixed with the leaves of a tree called _huixachin_ \n\n\n[^103]: From this point on, Sahagún uses the Spanish feminine article _la_ to characterize the traders in this chapter.","html":"The artisan of sashes or belts, when he is cutting them, cuts some of them narrow and others wide. He puts fastening clasps on all of them. He cuts others narrow and thick, and others neither too wide nor too narrow. Some are yellow, others are white, others are dark colored, and others are vermilion or red.
\nThe shoemaker first cuts the shoes, and then he puts soles on them and sews them, tightening them very well. [He cuts] some narrow and others wide. Some of them are so very well made and refined that they are exclusively for the lords.
\nThe peddler buys wholesale to resell in retail [things] such as paper, scissors, knives, needles, small pieces of cloth, canvas, bracelets, bangles, or beads, as well as many other things that he can buy wholesale.
\nThe job of the woman1 who plasters heads with some herbs called xiuhquilitl, which are effective for the ailments of the head, is to look for black mud, bring it to the tianquiz in order to put it on the heads of those who want it, and put these herbs on [their heads] once [the herbs] are ground and mixed with the leaves of a tree called huixachin
\nFrom this point on, Sahagún uses the Spanish feminine article la to characterize the traders in this chapter.↩
Nelpilonamacac, talabartenamacac: tlapitzaoacatequini, tlapitzaoacasutlani, tlamelaoacatlaxotla, tlauicollotia, tlatepuziotia: quinamaca patlaoac, pitzaoac, ipan qualli, patlaoacatilaoac, coztic, iztac, tliltic, tliltlactic
\nÇapatosnamacac, castillan cacçoc: tlacacoapalhuia, tlatequi, cacço, tlaço, tlatzoma, tlatepitzço, quinamaca pitzaoac, mîmati itonal, tetonal.
\nTlacôcoalnamacac: tlacemãqui, tlacecemanqui, tlacēcuini tlacôcoani, quinamaca tepuztli, amatl, tixeras, cuchillos, uitzmallotl, paños lienços, tlatentli, macuestli, muchi quipie, in quexquich ueliti.
\nSiuhquilnamacac, tepa, palnamacac, tepâ: çoquicuini, coquimama, tepâ, tlapa, tlauixachiotia, tlaquauhtepuziotia: quinamaca in palli, çan mulhui çoquitl, uixachio, quauhtepuzio.
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"74e6f876-41f3-4a28-8629-a970c1daedb2","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl-to-English by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl-al-inglés por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl translation"],"es":["traducción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"The sash seller, the belt seller [is] a cutter of cloth, a cutter of narrow strips. He cuts straight [strips of cloth] he provides them with loops, with metal fasteners. He sells broad, narrow, sufficiently broad and thick, yellow, white, black, and] red[^2] [sashes].\n\nThe shoe seller, the maker of Castilian shoes, provides soles; cuts them; stitches sandals. He stitches, sews, stitches firmly. He sells narrow [shoes], the privilege of wise men.\n\nThe peddler [is] a retailer; a retailer of diverse objects: one who procures things in wholesale lots, who peddles them. He sells metal, paper, scissors, knives, needles, cloth, lengths of cloth, bands of cloth, bracelets. All [these] he stores—as many as he can.\n\nThe blue dye seller dyes one. [She is] a seller of black clay [which] dyes one—a gatherer of clay. She carries clay on her back[^3] [to] dye one, [to] dye objects. She mixes it with *uixachin*[^4] [leaves,] with *quauhtepoztli[^5] [bark]. She sells black clay, ordinary clay, with *uixachin* [leaves], with *quauhtepoztli* [bark].\n\n\n\n\n[^2]: *Ibid.: tlatlactic*.\n\n\n[^3]: Read *çoquimama*.\n\n\n[^4]: *Acacia farnesiana* (L.) Willd. (Standley, *op. cit*., Pt. 2, p. 378).\n\n\n[^5]: Cf. *Florentine Codex*, Book XI, fol. 113*v*. Siméon, *op. cit*., describes it as the bark of a tree mixed with black clay and *uixachin* leaves; von Gall, *op. cit*., pp. 217*sqq*., believes it may be *teposan*, a *Budleia* sp., possibly *sessiliflora*.","html":"The sash seller, the belt seller [is] a cutter of cloth, a cutter of narrow strips. He cuts straight [strips of cloth] he provides them with loops, with metal fasteners. He sells broad, narrow, sufficiently broad and thick, yellow, white, black, and] red1 [sashes].
\nThe shoe seller, the maker of Castilian shoes, provides soles; cuts them; stitches sandals. He stitches, sews, stitches firmly. He sells narrow [shoes], the privilege of wise men.
\nThe peddler [is] a retailer; a retailer of diverse objects: one who procures things in wholesale lots, who peddles them. He sells metal, paper, scissors, knives, needles, cloth, lengths of cloth, bands of cloth, bracelets. All [these] he stores—as many as he can.
\nThe blue dye seller dyes one. [She is] a seller of black clay [which] dyes one—a gatherer of clay. She carries clay on her back2 [to] dye one, [to] dye objects. She mixes it with uixachin3 [leaves,] with quauhtepoztli4 [bark]. She sells black clay, ordinary clay, with *uixachin [leaves], with quauhtepoztli [bark].
\nIbid.: tlatlactic.↩
Read çoquimama.↩
Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. (Standley, op. cit., Pt. 2, p. 378).↩
Cf. Florentine Codex, Book XI, fol. 113v. Siméon, op. cit., describes it as the bark of a tree mixed with black clay and uixachin leaves; von Gall, op. cit., pp. 217sqq., believes it may be teposan, a Budleia sp., possibly sessiliflora.↩