queztepolli.

Headword: 
queztepolli.
Principal English Translation: 

thigh bone
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 57.

Orthographic Variants: 
quetztepolli
IPAspelling: 
keːstepolli
Attestations from sources in English: 

Aun in queztepolli, amatica qujqujqujmiloaia, qujxaiacatiaia: auh ynjn motocaiotiaia, malteutl = And he wrapped the thigh bone [of the sacrificed captive] with paper, and provided it a mask. And this was called the god-captive. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 57.

auh yoan yn jquac y, tlaacopiloaia: auh ynaca oc concholotiaia, yn iqueztepol malli: yoan mecaxicolli, aztapalactontli itech pilcac = Moreover, at this same time he put it up [on the point of the pole], so that it hung—having removed the [remaining] flesh—the thigh bone of the captive, and suspended with it the sleeveless knotted cord jacket and a small spray of heron feathers. (16th century, Mexico City)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2—The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 57.