paper (originally made from fig bark, from the ficus tree) or the tree itself; a letter; a document; not knowing "paper" meant not knowing "writing" (i.e. not knowing how to write), not being literate; San Pablito Pahuatlan, in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, is a town where the amatl paper-making tradition has been conserved
a message-bearing letter or paper; official paper; document-writing on paper; document; sometimes used to mean títulos primordiales (primordial titles, or community histories)