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Fig. 10.
Macuahuitl (sword) and tepoztopilli (thrusting spear), from
an engraving of the Armería Real collection in Madrid. The
macuahuitl is 0.84 meter (2 feet, 9 inches) long; the cutting
surface is 0.57 meter (1 foot, 10 inches), and the handle is
0.27 meter (11 inches). The tepoztopilli is 0.91 meter (3 feet)
long; the cutting surface is 0.31 meter (1 foot), and the handle
is 0.60 meter (2 feet). To judge by sixteenth-century pictures,
the tepoztopilli was usually longer than this example, which
may have been truncated, possibly for shipment to Spain.
These examples were destroyed in a fire in the nineteenth
century. (Jubinal 1846: plate 9) |
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