JimLes
Well-Known Member
This. It is one of the 5 Kakars, or "K's". Some of them are getting even smaller though, like in the centimetre range. Of course, this is more of a recent thing, as every baptized Sikh was supposed to carry a full-sized dagger back in the day.
I remember seeing as real kirpan on the wall of a friend's house. Something like this:

Obviously, a real weapon that one could do some really gruesome damage with.
The ones worn to school look like this:
