The quauholōlli (also transliterated as cuauhololli) was a kind of blunt weapon used by the Aztecs, Huastecs, and Tarascans.[1] It is a mace-like club consisting of a 50 cm (20 in) to 70 cm (28 in) long wooden stick ending in a hard ball of wood, rock or copper, used for breaking bones, as Mesoamericanshields were not strong enough to always absorb its impact. This type of weapon was effective in the downward blow, but a lot less practical in other directions. Like other Aztec clubs, its use was widespread, primarily among novice warriors.
A representation of a quauholōlli (bottom right) from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, 16th century.
While advancing unto enemy ranks in battle, after the projectiles were used up, it was held in the shield hand, while the primary hand handled the atlatl. Upon contact, the atlatl was discontinued, and probably dropped. The quauholōll was used in close combat as a shock weapon, alongside the macuahuitl and the macuahuiltzoctli (a smaller variant of the macahuitl with a pointed tip and just a knob of wood portruding from each of its four sides).[2][3][4]
Depictions in illustrationsedit
This quauholōlli is represented in the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, Codex Duran and the Florentine codex. The Warriors that wield it in these depictions, always have a shield. Its representation is practically absent in sculptures.[5] No archaeological specimens of the weapon have been discovered, but probable representations in the form of offerings, of somewhat smaller sizes, made out of obsidian and basalt, have been found in the Templo Mayor and near the Coyolxauhqui Stone sites in 1979.[6][7]
Uses in trainingedit
It was one of the weapons used for training in the tēlpochcalli.[8]
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^Hassig, Ross (1988). Aztec Warfare : Imperial Expansion and Political Control. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 97–99. ISBN9780806127736.
^Obregón, Marco Antonio Cervera (2004). "El sistema de armamento entre los Mexicas". Arqueología Mexicana (in Spanish). 12 (70): 70, 72.
^Obregón, Marco Antonio Cervera (2011). Guerreros aztecas (in Spanish). Ediciones Nowtilus. pp. 99, 116. ISBN9788499670362.
^Obregón, Marco Antonio Cervera. "Mexica Weaponry". from the original on 18 February 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
^Obregón, Marco Antonio Cervera (2007). El armamento entre los mexicas (in Spanish). Madrid: Ediciones Polifemo. pp. 70–71. ISBN978-8496813083.
^Bueno Bravo, Isabel (2015). Mesoamérica. Territorio En Guerra (in Spanish). Centro de Estudios Filosóficos, Políticos y Sociales Vicente Lombardo Toledano. p. 131. ISBN978-607-466-079-1.
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