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calamatl.

Headword: 
calamatl.
Principal English Translation: 

house document (deed, bill of sale?)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Yhuan ca oncatqui ycalamatl yn tlalamat[l] = Y también está escrito en el documento de la casa y en el documento del terreno (Xochimilco, 1591)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 290–291.

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