Seme (dagger)

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A seme, [1] [2] simi [3] or ol alem [4] or Njora is a type of dagger or short sword used by the Maasai and Kikuyu peoples of Kenya in East Africa. [3] [5]

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They have a distinctive leaf-shaped blade, with a relatively rounded point. Scabbards are generally made of wood covered with rawhide, and dyed red.

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Notes

  1. "Kenyan Maasai "Ol Alem" ", connectingcultures.us
  2. "African Masai Seme (Ol Alem)", Lew Waldman's Ethnographic Arms & Armour
  3. 1 2 "Kikuyu simi with scabbard", IWM
  4. "Ol alem (sword)", John Woodman Higgins Armory collection
  5. Stone, George Cameron; LaRocca, Donald J. (1999). A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times: In All Countries and in All Times. Dover Publications. p. 547. ISBN   978-0-486-40726-5 . Retrieved 2008-12-29.

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