Quauholōlli

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 Mesoamerican shields 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.

Upon contact, the atlatl was dropped, where the quauholōll would be 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 a knob of wood portruding from each of its four sides).

[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.