Macana
The macanas were masses of wood which the warriors précolombiens used to kill, wound, or daze their enemies.
The most famous macanas are those of the Aztèque S, called in Náhuatl macuahuitl , and which were size of a Machette, made of wood hard as the wood of Ocote, with several frayed sheets of Obsidienne encrusted on the edges and a loop at its lower end in order to fix it at the arm of the combatant.
The principal goal of these macanas was not to kill the enemies, but to wound them or to daze them to be able to capture them by afterwards. For the Mexicans a wounded enemy was worth than one much more killed, because thus they could sacrifice it in a temple. At the beginning, at the time of the first blows, the macanas were mortals, but while they struck during the battle, the stones broke and disappeared. When there was not more, the macanas were nothing any more but large Gourdin S of wood.
Until the XVIe century, the Guaraní S also used this weapon in order to wound then to capture enemy warriors, whom they devoured of the months later with an aim of profiting from the energy accumulated in them.