Thursday, April 24, 2008

Macuahuitl

Aztec warriors as shown in the 16th century Florentine Codex

from wikipedia:

The macuahuitl (a name derived from the Nahuatl language) is a weapon shaped like a wooden club. Its sides are embedded with prismatic blades made from obsidian, a volcanic glass stone frequently used for tool making by the Aztec and other pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.


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