Ku-Klip

Infobox character
colour = blue
name = Ku-Klip


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first = "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) (unnamed)
last = "The Tin Woodman of Oz" (1918) (named)
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species = human
gender = male
age = unknown
born = unknown
death = unknown
occupation = tinsmith
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family = unknown
spouse = unknown
children = unknown
relatives = unknown
nationality= Munchkin
residence = a house in the forest of the central Munchkin Country
creator = L. Frank Baum

Ku-Klip is a character in the Oz books of L. Frank Baum. He is the originally unnamed tinsmith in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" who provided Nick Chopper with tin prostheses when the latter was cursed to dismember himself by the Wicked Witch of the East because of his love for the servant, Nimmie Amee.

In "The Tin Woodman of Oz", we are introduced to a soldier named Captain Fyter, who met with the same fate due to his interest in Nimmie Amee, and Ku-Klip did the same for him.

After the witch was destroyed by Dorothy Gale's house, Ku-Klip entered the witch's house and took some of her magical devices, including a magic glue. He had thrown Chopper and Fyter's discarded body parts into a barrel, and decided to use this glue (mislabeled "Meat Glue" in John R. Neill's illustrations) to assemble the parts from two men into a man called Chopfyt, but he finds he must substitute a tin arm as well. Nimmie Amee marries the assemblage and appears to be quite happy, but Princess Ozma takes the witch's tools away from the smith so that he cannot create any more unnatural beings.

Ku-Klip continues to keep Nick Chopper's flesh head, who finds the Tin Woodman's claim to be him ludicrous, in a cabinet.