Marco Antonio Cervera Obregon dicusses the Macuahuitl in Post-Classical Mesoamerica; based on archaeological evidence alone, the weapon has rarely been recovered.
Marco Antonio Cervera Obregon, “The Macuahuitl: An Innovative Weapon of the Late Post-Classic in Mesoamerica,” Arms & Armour 3, no. 2 (2006), 137
If it were just from Mexica archaeological evidence alone, we might think that this weapon was hardly used by this people. Very few archaeological objects have been recovered. One of the original examples available was to be found in the Royal Armoury in Madrid until it was destroyed by fire in 1849 (Hassig 1988: 82) (figure 9).