calpullalli

Updated: May 18, 2025

"Each consanguine relationship thus gradually surrounded the surface on which it dwelt with a number of garden plots sufficient to the wants of its members. The aggregate area thereof, including the abodes, formed the 'calpullalli' soil of the 'calpulli' and was held by it as a unit; the single tracts, however, being tilled and used for the benefit of the single families.

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