Whoa! You've actually seen a maquahuitl? Very, very cool. I'm interested for two reasons; I collect tribal weaponry and I'm working on a thesis concerning elements of post-classical mesoamerican governance. I wanted some cool "visuals" to add to my presentation. So far I have some fantastic replica codice pages done on mate paper with traditional dyes, and a replica of an olmec piece that was discovered in Xochicalco that I can demonstrate influenced the naturalistic art style popular in Texcoco around 1500 (I made friends with a couple of artisans from Oaxaca.) Very cool stuff, but I've only seen one, poorly made, overly priced maquahuitl since I've been down here. It looked like it was made from an old two by four. I couldn't even find a model to photograph in the Anthro Museum in D.F. or at the Armaments museum in Cuernavaca. It has been frustrating. Whenever I talk to obsidian workers and describe what I want they always say, "Oh, yeah yeah. I know what you're talking about. No, I've never seen one." I understand that it takes a reasonable ammount of obsidian (I'm bringing a backpack-full back into the states.) I really want to do it myself. Is there any way you could get me in contact with the person who worked on the sword that you saw, maybe they would have some designs that I could work from. Thank you so much for replying!
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