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A macuahuitl is a wooden sword set with blades
made from obsidian stone. Commonly used by the Aztec military forces and
other Mesoamerican cultures, it was capable of inflicting serious
lacerations. They were made by cutting a groove into one edge of the
wooden club, into which sharpened flint or obsidian stones would be set
and firmly fixed with an adhesive.
Special ceremonial macuahuitls also existed, in which the obsidian blades were replaced with other minerals and gemstones.
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