>>79272915technically a macuahuitl is more like a hybrid sword-club, because the micro obsidian blades set into its sides were more typically aligned like blades instead of like the sharktooth formation we see in art. the more crude looking form you see with the blades not aligned is a western fiction that originates in the perception of the aztecs as primitive, which they were not. this is what it actually looked like, the spanish had one in a museum until it was destroyed in a fire
