[qui]micuilhuiaia in amanteca: auh çatepan iehoantin quiteicuilohoaia, ica tecpatl, quitocatiui in tlilantli, inic tlatecpaicuiloa quitotomoloa, quitotomolotihui: itech cantiui in quenami machiotl. Çã ie no iuh tlachichioa in ascan: inic cana monequi intlachioal, aço ihuitlacuilolli, ihuitlachioalli itech monequi: quinepanhuia quimottitia in amanteca, inic quitequi, in quexisquich quinamictiuh, ihuitlacuilolli.
\nIn ascan ie ic tlachichioa teucuitlahoaque, quinequi in xalli, in xalpitzaoac: çatepan quiteci, uel quicuechoa, no quineloa in tlaltzacutli: niman ic quimana, çan oc iuhquin quiçoquitlalia, inic ipan quiçaz inic mocopinaz, in çaço tlein quichioazque: auh omilhuitl in oaqui.\nIn icoac ouelhoac: çatepan tapalcatica mischichiqui, mixiqui, motapalcauiia, motapalcachichiqui, motapalcaichiqui, inic misxipetzoa: niman ic moxima mocuicui tepuzhuictica: in iuh omoteneuh cecni, aço omilhuitl, anoço eilhuitl in mocencahoa in moiectilia in moiec[tllio.]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"8b5459dc-3302-4e33-b338-be86575aeb74","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 feather workers made them a design, and then they chased the design with a flint knife [as a tracer]. They followed the black line to form the design with a flint knife. They embossed it, they went making relief work, copying just as was the [black line] pattern. In the same way they manufacture objects today, wherever their work is needed. Perhaps feather mosaic [or other] feather work is required. [The goldworkers] join with [and] are instructed by the feather workers who cut all manner of feather work[^17] which may come their way.\n\nToday the goldworkers work thus. They require sand—fine sand. Then they grind it, they pulverize it well; they also mix it with potter’s clay. Then they set it out [in the sun], in the very same manner as they form the clay so as to bring forth, to cast, whatsoever they would make. And in two days it is dry.\n\nWhen it is well dried, then with a potsherd the surface is rubbed, smoothed,[^18] polished, burnished, shined, so that the surface is smoothed. Then it is carved—sculptured—with a metal knife, as is told elsewhere. In either two or three days [the work] is finished, made good, \n\n\n\n\n[^17]: *Yhuitlachiualli*, in the *Acad. Hist. MS*.\n\n\n[^18]: *Mixichiqui*, in *ibid*.","html":"the feather workers made them a design, and then they chased the design with a flint knife [as a tracer]. They followed the black line to form the design with a flint knife. They embossed it, they went making relief work, copying just as was the [black line] pattern. In the same way they manufacture objects today, wherever their work is needed. Perhaps feather mosaic [or other] feather work is required. [The goldworkers] join with [and] are instructed by the feather workers who cut all manner of feather work1 which may come their way.
\nToday the goldworkers work thus. They require sand—fine sand. Then they grind it, they pulverize it well; they also mix it with potter’s clay. Then they set it out [in the sun], in the very same manner as they form the clay so as to bring forth, to cast, whatsoever they would make. And in two days it is dry.
\nWhen it is well dried, then with a potsherd the surface is rubbed, smoothed,2 polished, burnished, shined, so that the surface is smoothed. Then it is carved—sculptured—with a metal knife, as is told elsewhere. In either two or three days [the work] is finished, made good,
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