Indian folding knives

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Originally Posted by ariel

Thanks a lot.
Any known folding knives before the arrival of europeans? If not acual examples, at least a mention of them.

I would think the old adage of form following function combined with the age-old practice of writing texts on (banana?) leaves would together support the likely of existence of such knives before European contact... Maybe the answer would more likely lie in the research of archaic practices of Brahmin scribes than in the search for a knife-reference per say?