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Scalping

Scalping is the act of cutting or tearing a part of the human scalp, with hair attached, from the head, and generally occurred in warfare with the scalp being a trophy. Scalp-taking is considered part of the broader cultural practice of the taking and display of human body parts as trophies, and may have developed as an alternative to the taking of human…

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Scalping

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related to Bibliography · 73
Scalping → America, American Indian, American War Making, Amerindians, Anastasia, Anthropological Review, Archaic Period, Archived, Arthur, Axtell, Billard, Burton, Business Media, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Biography, Chacon, Critical Introduction, David, Dictionary, Displaying
related to Colonial wars · 37
Scalping → Abenaki, All, Bounties, Bounty, By, Connecticut, Dutch, English, Four, French, Frenchmen, Hannah Duston, In, Indian, Indians, Iroquois, Iroquois Confederacy, King Philip's War, King William's War, Massachusetts
related to Image gallery · 31
Scalping → AD, Alexandre, American Big Mouth Spring, BarlowJosiah, BatzIndian Warrior, Boscawen, Californian Seth Kinman, Cheyennes, Comanche Indians, Crow Indians, Curtis, Cutting, Edward, Fort Dodge, Germany, Guerrier, Hannah DustonSauvage, He, Indian, KansasModocs
related to American Revolutionary War · 25
Scalping → American, American Lieutenant William Barton, American Patriots, American Revolutionary War, Americans, As, British, British Indian Department, British-allied Iroquois, British-allied Natives, Canada, During, Hamilton, Henry Hamilton, Her, However, Iroquois, Jane McCrea, Loyalist, Native
related to Intertribal conflict · 25
Scalping → AD, Although, Americas, Among Plains Indians, Carbon, Cheyennes, Columbian, Crow Creek, Despite, European, However, Indeed, Indian, Indians, Logt, Many, Mark, Native Americans, Noncombatants, North America
related to External links · 22
Scalping → Academia, Amstudy, Archived, Axtell, British Scalp Proclamation, Charles, Cowan, CS1, First Nation History, Governor, Head-Hunting Roman Cavalry, James, Lawrence, November, PDF, Ross, Savages, Sturtevant, The Unkindest Cut, We Were Not
related to Europe · 15
Scalping → Alvastra, Black Sea, Denmark, Ertebølle, Georg Friederici, He, Herodotus, Mesolithic, One, Scythian, Scythians, Several, Sweden, The, Then
related to American Civil War · 9
Scalping → American Civil War, Anderson, Anderson's, Archie Clement, Bloody Bill, Confederate, For, Some, Union
related to Asia · 8
Scalping → China's, Erlitou, Iron Age, It, Longshan, Scythians, South Siberia, There
related to Techniques · 6
Scalping → American, Collectively, European, Native Americans, Specific, The

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american scalps war scalp indian native scalped bounties new indians bounty evidence offered warfare head taking human massachusetts also dead

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Scalpingis aact of cutting or tearing a part of the human scalp0.90text
the taking of headsinstance ofand described customs0.80text
the retention of skulls as trophiesinstance ofand described customs0.80text
nowhere else does he mention scalping.Occasional instances of scalping of dead Axis troops by Allied military personnel are known from World War IIinstance ofand described customs0.80text
Arizona paid bounties for enemy Native American scalpsinstance ofSome American states0.80text
Scalpingrelated to American Civil WarSome0.60section
Scalpingrelated to American Civil WarAmerican Civil War0.60section
Scalpingrelated to American Civil WarFor0.60section
Scalpingrelated to American Civil WarConfederate0.60section
Scalpingrelated to American Civil WarBloody Bill0.60section
Scalpingrelated to American Civil WarAnderson0.60section
Scalpingrelated to American Civil WarUnion0.60section

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