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There was actually an online lecture on Aztec featherwork (speffically of shields) a few weeks ago, if either of you are interested I can post it
>Incidentally, those gold and silver gilt jackets make me think of something like scales, worn where the Europeans would wear mail.
Well, it's hard to say how comparable it is for sure, since again, that one line is the only reference to it I know of. There's a speculative reconstruction of it here: https://twitter.com/ohs688/status/1345229077007851520 , though I'm personally wondering if perhaps there's some mistranslation going on simply due to there being no other contexts where Metal armor is mentioned or depicted, but OHS688 and Rafael Mena there are as/more educated then I am, so eh
As far as the jackets/tunic in the image I posted in >>77716738 that that cyan underline points to, those are Ehuatl (see also pic, this being the famous poet-engineeer-king of Texcoco Nezalhualcoyotl) It's basically the same concept of the Tlahuiztli full-body warsuits (thick cotton base with feather mosiac over it; both would have been worn over ichcahuipilli) just in a tunic or vest form rather then a full body suit, often with a skirt of leather strips and/or feathers (like greek/roman skirt armor) and often fancy regalia, as for the Mexica at least Ehuatl was largerly limited to royalty and very high officer/general roles (other Nahuas, or at least the Tlaxcalteca, used it more liberally)
>Mexica
Much of what you see in the image there would apply to other Nahua groups too, not just the Mexica speffically, mind you; if not Mesoamerican civillizations as a whole in a looser sense (for example, the Mixtec also had the Ichcahuipilli vests/tunics (the magenta underline in that image), just with vertical rather then cross stitching, though they only used full body animal themed warsuits in ritualistic rather then martial contexts, along with some (also very colorful) Mixtec specific armor and banners)