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calpullis

  • plural
    of calpulli.
    calpulli
    noun
    a unit of social organization in pre-Columbian Aztec society consisting of an extended family or other group with shared interests who lived close together and shared some land rights or tribute responsibilities.

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The calpullis, families or quarters, are very common in each province.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan

Among the lands which were given to the chefs of the second class there were also calpullis.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan

There were twenty clans, called in the Nahuatl language "calpullis."

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske

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