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Chimalli

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A named Nahua war-shield of reed, hide, and featherwork. Not the Shield of Achilles, not aegis, not ancile, and not a generic shield.

Nahua tradition

Chimalli appears in Nahua tradition.
The Florentine Codex describes chimalli, the Nahua war-shield of reed, hide, and featherwork. A named Mexica shield in that ethnography, not aegis, not ancile, and not a generic shield.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
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sources

Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).