maccuahuitl

However, the maccuahuitl was a hardwood club with obsidian blades, which is quite different from the heavy, two-handed curved steel blade of the "cimeter."

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It truly was a maccuahuitl, the primitive Aztec sword, but very unlike any description of that weapon that I had ever seen.

The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier

Rayburn also examined the maccuahuitl with much interest.

The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier

The maccuahuitl, as described by the Spaniards at the time of the conquest and as shown by the Aztec pictures of it preserved in various museums, was a wooden blade from three and a half to four feet long and from four to five inches wide.

The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier

Fray Antonio's knowledge of the matter having a wider practical range than mine, for he knew well the contents of the several Mexican museums in which specimens of the primitive weapons are preserved, I thought it possible that he might be able to match this curious maccuahuitl with an account of another like it which he somewhere had seen.

The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier

But Fray Antonio's surprise over it was greater than my own; and he certainly found more in it to please him than I did; for this metal maccuahuitl, supposing it to belong to ancient times, settled in his favor a controversy that for some time past we had been amicably but earnestly carrying on.

The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier

LDS apologists cite the Mesoamerican maccuahuitl as a possible "cimiter" .9

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_maccuahuitl_ can be called a sword -- such as the Aztecs used in ancient times.

The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier