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 12-inch (300 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.
Facón
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A facón is a fighting and utility knife widely used in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay as the principal tool and weapon of the gaucho of the South American pampas. Often fitted with an elaborately decorated metal hilt and sheath, the facón has a large, heavy blade measuring from 25 cm to 51 cm in length.
Gauchos demonstrate use of facones