Amantecatl: the feather artist.
He is whole; he has a face and a heart.
The good feather artist is skillful,
Is master of himself; it is his duty
To humanize the desires of the people.
He works with feathers,
Chooses and arranges them,
Paints them with different colors,
Joins them together. —From a Nahua song-poem, in the Codice Matritense de la Real Academia, 8, folio 116r