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the arm, the measurement from the shoulder to the hand (see Molina)
This measurement may have been used to measure a houselot in Tetzcoco, in the Fragmento Humboldt VI. It also appears in the Oztoticpac Lands Map. (sixteenth century, Tetzcoco)
"Podemos concluir entonces que el cemacolli era la extensión entre la articulación del hombro y la punta de los dedos del mismo brazo; su equivalencia sería aproximadamente de 0.80 m; la cual puede corroborarse con la anchura de '15 brazos' que da Tezozómoc a la calzada de Xochimilco y las calculadas para los uchpantli por los conquistadores."