Navaja
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The navaja is a traditional Spanish folding-blade fighting and utility knife.
A contemporary navaja of traditional design, with a 5.5-inch (140 mm) blade
A priest executed by garotte by French forces under Napoleon for carrying a navaja
Navaja dating to c. 1790; it has a yataghan style blade, a stag-horn handle and the pull-ring for disengaging the blade-locking mechanism is clearly visible
Painting by the French artist Joseph Saint-Germier "La Navaja", 1888. The painting depicts a fight to the death using specific Spanish Navajа knives.
Knife fight
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A knife fight is a violent physical confrontation between two or more combatants in which one or more participants are armed with a knife. A knife fight is defined by the presence of a knife as a weap
Navaja
…one to two feet long, and called a navaja from its resemblance to a razor. The blade is of the finest Toledo steel... In 18th and 19th century Spain esgrimas de navaja (fencing, or knife-fighting schools) could be found in the major cities and throughout Andalusia, particularly in Cordoba, Málaga, and Seville. As time…
Argument over a Card Game, by Jan Steen, 17th century
British section of the International Settlement in Shanghai, during the 1920s
Demonstration of a jujutsu defense against a knife attack. Berlin, 1924.