Sushi chef's array

Usage examples of knives.

Shortly thereafter we were apprehended by a mixed group of unlikely allies, representatives of Sleen, Yellow Knives and Kaiila, who in virtue of the Memory, as it is called, had joined forces to attack the wagon train and soldiers.

The knives were about fourteen inches long and all but two inches of that was blade.

They both held the bare blades of the wavy knives in their left hands, in their right was clutched the ring of the parachute release.

One's lodge, and robes, and possessions could be taken away or cut to pieces with knives and scattered to the winds.

I did not doubt but what the Fleer and the Yellow Knives, and other peoples, too, might have similar ceremonies, in which, in one way or another, a similar profession might take place, there being danced or enacted also by a woman of another group, perhaps even, in those cases, by a maiden of the Kaiila.

Thus, indirectly, even tribes hostile to the Kaiila, or normally so, such as te Fleer and the Yellow Knives might, quite possibly, have heard of Cuwignaka.

Hci, I think, would rather kill Fleer and Yellow Knives than master slaves.

I wished to find Grunt, to query him as to the possible significance, if any, of the information I had earlier received from Oiputake, as to the identity of the Yellow Knives in the camp.

In my intense awareness of this being the day of the great dance, pobably a function of Cuwignaka's almost overwhelming concern about it, and in my concern over the fate of Canka, and my concern with the information obtained from Oiputake, I had forgotten that this day, too, was the day of peace council, a day in which was to be seen, supposedly, at least the first stages of the ratiffication of a peace agreement between the Yellow Knives and the Kaiila.

They sheathed their knives and resumed their stance, arms folded, before the threshold of the great lodge.

Iwoso, on the other hand, like the other three, who were presumably Yellow Knives, seemed quite calm.

On the basis of her experience with the Yellow Knives she had told me that the three Yellow Knives in the camp are not civil cheiftains, as is claimed, but war chiefs.

It was through these gaps that Yellow Knives had perhaps entered the lodge.

Five Yellow Knives, in single file, astride kaiila, moved quickly past.

Too, if other Yellow Knives should approach the area it scarcely seemed appropriate to ahve it lying about.