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Macuahuitl



The macuahuitl (also called maquahuitl) is a weapon shaped like wooden club. Its sides are fringed with cutting blades made from obsidian, a volcanic glass stone frequently used for tool making by the Aztecs, a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture of the Postclassic era.



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