What mesoamerican culture used long, "pike-like" spears?

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo obliquely compared spears of the Chinantec people to pikes (at least in translation -- I didn't check the Spanish original) and remarked that they were longer than the Castilian equivalent.

Several Mesoamerican groups used spears. Here are Aztec warriors wielding tepoztopilli:

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