A seme,"Kenyan Maasai "Ol Alem" " , connectingcultures.us"African Masai Seme (Ol Alem)", Lew Waldman's Ethnographic Arms & Armour simi or ol alem"Ol alem (sword)", John Woodman Higgins Armory collection or Njora is a type of dagger or short sword used by the Maasai and Kikuyu peoples of Kenya in East Africa."Kikuyu simi with scabbard", IWM
They have a distinctive leaf-shaped blade, with a relatively rounded point. Scabbards are generally made of wood covered with rawhide, and dyed red.
See also List of daggers
Notes
Further reading George Cameron Stone, Donald J. LaRocca, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times, Verlag Courier Dover Publications, 1999, Nick Evangelista: The encyclopedia of the sword, Verlag Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995,