Xiuhuitzolli
The xiuhuitzolli is the pointed diadem of turquoise mosaic worn by the Aztec tlatoque, the supreme rulers, as the emblem of sovereignty, its name meaning 'pointed thing of turquoise.' The right to wear it was held to come from the gods and to pass with the kingship, and colonial accounts record that the ruler Motecuhzoma was crowned with one at his accession. The Codex Mendoza and the Florentine Codex show the crown above a headband of the same mosaic, and the turquoise itself was a material charged with solar and divine significance, gathered through long-distance trade and set by master lapi