Café con Nawatl: A photograph of an actual Macuahuitl

Kurly Tlapoyawa
3 min readJan 28, 2021

While doing research for the makwawitl (macuahuitl, macana) episode of my youtube series, I came across a lot of really interesting information that I thought was worth examining further. One of the things that I came across was the catalog of the Royal Armory of Madrid, Spain. In particular, a page…

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Kurly Tlapoyawa

(Chicano/Nawa/Mazewalli) Archaeologist, filmmaker, and founder of the Chimalli institute of Mesoamerican Arts. Professor of C/S at Colegio Chicano del Pueblo.