The Karambit, which is Indonesian is a curved knife from the Minagbakau people of West Sumatra, and it is one of the weapons used in Pencak silat and Filipino martial arts.
It was first for peace as it came from an agricultural place for cutting plant roots, it was a smaller version of the Southeast Asian Sickle.
It was inspired by the claws of a tiger, and it became weaponized by the Minagbakau people of West Sumatra, and along with it being used as a weapon, they added it to be move curved to maximize the cutting power of the weapon.
The two grips are the Hammer grip which the blade is up and the pinky finger in the hole at the foot of the blade, and the traditional way which is the blade facing down, and the index finger in the hole at the foot of the blade.
More modern forms of the Karabint have it being made from expensive materials and being titield as one of the type of blade named a "folding blade".
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