Ilamatecuhtli, the Old Woman Lord, died in Tititl. She wore a white skirt, and an overskirt of hide strips with shells on the end, the star skirt, the citlalicue. The Nahuatl writers recalled her costume and actions: "Her shield was only a chalky shield pasted with eagle feathers. Its center was made of eagle feathers sewn to the middle of the shield, and it had pendants of heron feathers at the edges and tassels shaped like grasshopper heads, made of eagle feathers; they hung by their points. And in her other hand she held her weaving sword." "And her eagle feather headpiece was a headdress on which stood arrayed eagle feathers; only they were the hair. They were twisted, arrayed, disposed, sewn to it, sewn to each other." "And before she died, she danced. The old men beat the drums for her; the singers sang for her; they intoned her song." "And when the sun was past its zenith, they took her up to the top of the temple." "And when they had taken her to the summit, then they cut open her breast. And when she died, then they severed her head. And her head they gave to him who went leading. He took it with him, in his right hand he held it; with the severed head he went making dance gestures." "And the ixiptla of Ilama tecuhtli danced: he kept stepping back; he raised his legs up behind him; and he kept supporting himself upon his staff, a cane. At its end, at its head, it was divided into three, like a three-pronged spear. It was called his thorny staff."