1.   A curved dagger was tucked inside her belt.

2.   After the initial fear and bewilderment, foreigners often emerge in high spirits, sometimes with gifts of curved daggers or Arab robes from their gracious captors.

3.   It is common to see tribesmen swaggering down the streets with guns tucked into waistbands next to traditional curved daggers known as jambiyas.

4.   Some carried wooden weapons that use rubber bands to shoot blade-tipped arrows, while others were armed with curved daggers.