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Macuahuitl

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A named obsidian-edged wooden club of Mesoamerican warfare. Not a mere, not generic sword, and not obsidian as a material.

Nahua tradition

Macuahuitl appears in Nahua tradition.
The Florentine Codex describes the mācuahuitl, the obsidian-edged wooden sword of Mexica warriors. A named Nahua weapon in that colonial ethnography, not mere, not generic sword, and not the obsidian-mirror meeting.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
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sources

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