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Atlatl

A named lever board that lengthens the throw of a dart or spear. Not a boomerang, not a sling, and not a harpoon alone.

Also known as Spear-thrower · Woomera

Nahua tradition

Atlatl appears in Nahua tradition.
The Florentine Codex describes the atlatl, the spear-thrower of Nahua hunting and war, among the weapons of that ethnography. A named Mesoamerican lever-board in that book, not a sling and not a harpoon alone.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
appears in · sourced · culturally specific

sources

Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).