chinamitl

Molina means 'cercado de seto' (Parte IIa, p. 21), or an inclosed area, and if we connect it with the old original 'chinamitl' we are forcibly carried back to the early times, when the Mexicans but dwelt on a few flakes of more or less solid ground.

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849

It thus reminds us of the "chinamitl" or garden-bed (as the name

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849

When a man of one chinamitl married into another, every male in the latter became his brother-in-law, _baluc_, or son-in-law,

The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

Each _chinamitl_ was presided over by a recognized leader, the “head of the house,” whose title was _ah [c,] alam_, “the keeper of the tablets,” [32-4] probably the painted records on which the genealogy of the family and the duties of its members were inscribed.

The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

The _chinamitl_ appears to have been the sub-gens.

The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

_Vocabulario Cakchiquel_, gives the rendering “mandadero,” and states that one was elected each year by the principals of each _chinamitl_, to convey messages.

The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

Among the Cakchiquels, each person bore two names; the first his individual name, the second that of his family or _chinamitl_.

The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

_aca_, related or affined; [32-2] and marriage within the chinamitl was not permitted.

The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868