Kifeé

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  A short blade with a curved end and intrincate embossing on the side, always carried in pairs at the sides of the waist: The clear indicator of a member of the Rooster Nation.   The Kifeé, worn by every member of the Haan Archipelago's most well'known diaspora, is a traditional dagger used for a ritualistic form of dance or duel known as "Kifeé Dance", in which two people holding a pair of these daggers in each hand will "dance" around each other wielding their daggers and spurs fast and close to their opponent, and using their tails to both defend themselves and try to confuse and obscure the vision of their opponent.
This dangerous art is used as a demonstration of skill, as a dance and sometimes as a martial art or even a way to solve disputes between individuals.   The Kifeé themselves are also worn as a way to show a person's identity as part of the Galliform people, as a means to defend themselves and others and can be used for preparing and eating food and some day-to-day tasks surrounding livestock and their nomadic lifestyle, but should not be used for rough tasks that may damage the blades.      

Kifeé as souvenirs

One of the means of livelihood of the Roosters is selling skirts, dolls, little caravan wagon replicas and other traditional items. Of course, the elegant kifeé are one of the most sought-after items by curious outsiders, though the ritual condition of the daggers understandably make the clansfolk reticent to sell the real daggers to strangers.
For these reason some will create replica kifeé that would serve as stand-in for the real deal but would never be considered as true daggers by the Rooster people. They achieve this though dulled blades of inferior metal, a slightly wrong shape, unbalanced weight or wildly incorrect, location-based decorations on the sides.
Item type
Religious / Ritualistic
Related ethnicities

Cover image: by Naelín

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