After the first stone-hurling,
the Inca warriors closed in for hand-to-hand combat. The main arm of the common
solider was the club, generally with a doughnut-shaped with a number of points,
especially in club-heads made of copper or bronze. A double-edged sword of hard
wood which has given its Quechua name macana to this weapon was another
arm; this was a heavy two-handed sword, and the wielder carried no shield. There
were also various types of battle-axes and poleaxes, with blades of stone or
copper. The long wooden spears had fire-hardened ends, or tips of copper or
bronze. (J. Alden Mason, The Ancient Civilizations of Peru [Middlesex:
Penguin Books Ltd., 1957], 196)