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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (4): 556–557.
Published: 01 October 2023
... to the Cedars . While Anderson notes that scalping was a cultural act unpalatable to Euro-colonial moral standards, he does little to explain the rationale behind it besides stating, “For Indians, scalps were a key means to physically demonstrate success on the warpath.” A deeper discussion of scalping would...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 329–333.
Published: 01 April 2017
... would arrive the next day and be killed. This happened. A Cheyenne Indian came on a white horse, was taken prisoner, and was killed. Mr. Kipp is supposed to have witnessed that event; he can verify [it].The medicine symbol [that Mahsette-Kuiuab] wore on his head was the scalp of a bear. He did not sit...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 697–722.
Published: 01 October 2007
... mustered
the nerve to venture out of his protective foliage, he “beheld the mangled
remains of several of his companions, murdered, scalped, and stripped!
and found the camp completely pillaged.”1
Despite Pennington’s and the Gazette’s portrayal of this event as
“shocking,” killing...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2021
.... The enemy rider (front) in the two-riders scene illustrated on this muslin holds a lance, whereas no lance is present at Joliet. The bridle of the enemy horse is also decorated with a scalp, but not at Joliet. The front enemy rider has a single feather on the head in both images. Striped leggings shown...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (3): 589–633.
Published: 01 July 2005
... with a pipe tomahawk while plundering
his store.38 Virginia militia officer Henry Timberlake, who fought in the
Cherokee War of 1761–62, called the pipe tomahawk one of the Indians’
favorite weapons:
The warlike arms used by the Cherokees are guns, bows and arrows,
darts, scalping knives...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 559–560.
Published: 01 October 2017
... rates when they peeled back the scalps of their patients to relieve intracranial bleeding and to remove bone fractures impinging on the dura mater and brain beneath. Over the past twenty-five years, Verano has examined approximately eight hundred trepanned Peruvian skulls in museums across the Americas...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 657–687.
Published: 01 October 2006
... of the Pennsylvanian and Virginian agreements
to support their new Ohio Amerindian allies.
When thirteen Shawnee warriors set out from the new village of Wakato-
mika (also known as Waketummaky or Lapitchuna) on the Muskingum
River in April of 1753, to raid the distant Catawba for prisoners and scalps...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 129–156.
Published: 01 January 2018
... Bird . 1910 . “ Coup and Scalp among the Plains Indians .” American Anthropologist 12 , no. 2 : 296 – 310 . Grinnell George Bird . 1971 . By Cheyenne Campfires . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Grinnell George Bird . 1972 [1923]. The Cheyenne Indians . 2...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 281–329.
Published: 01 April 2006
... victory at Medfield during King Philip’s War, which culminated when
‘‘those had been upon the expedition were come up to the sagamore’s wig-
wam. And then, oh, the hideous insulting and triumphing that there was over
some Englishmen’s scalps they had taken (as their manner is) and brought...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 519–545.
Published: 01 October 2021
...-taddle’s] H[usband] and a Cheyenne were galloping along side by side. The Ch. rushed right up to a man with epaulets, therefore probably a leader, and with a spear planted in his chest, pulled the soldier backwards off his horse, then killed him with the soldier’s own sword, and scalped him. K’s H counted...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 391–418.
Published: 01 July 2014
... a relative killed by an enemy group
by slaying a member of that group and collecting the scalp. Nevertheless,
Comanche warriors on a revenge expedition would not ignore the oppor-
tunity of obtaining loot if the occasion presented itself. Comanche raiding
parties consisted mostly of young men, often...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (2): 227–247.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in their estimation; the scalp of the latter is no more desirable than that of a dog” (170). However, in the same narrative, Millar writes that at the town of Suwaney there were “Indians and negro chiefs, who sat in council” (241). The largely autonomous towns of the Florida Indians held different notions of race...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 265–285.
Published: 01 July 2022
... seventeenth century, French officials experimented with a policy of trading guns to colonists for Native American scalps or slaves, although slaves were preferred, for plantation labor. The French only sent about twenty guns a year to offer in trade, however, so colonists in Louisiana did not acquire as many...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 581–603.
Published: 01 October 2013
..., barely escaped with his life, recounting that “a fellow called
Long Crop from the Cussitaws . . . came over here with a view to take
my Scalp, but he mist.” As McIntosh alleged, the actions of the Cussetas
constituted a larger offensive “to drive all the Beloved Men [British] out
of the Nation...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 701–723.
Published: 01 October 2004
..., seizing horses, slaves, and things of value.26 Scalps and other war tro-
phies had once marked their status as warriors, but now emblems of victory
in battle became indistinguishable from the measures of success employed
by their white neighbors. Menawa, the ‘‘mixed blood’’ who led the party...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (2): 269–293.
Published: 01 April 2013
... to Gov-
ernor Stevens that young men “wanted by some brave act to win the favor of
their young women, and bring scalps and horses to show their prowess.”37
Most Blackfoot men went to war in order to improve their social standing.38
In 1853–54, the prospect of peace prompted at least five hundred...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 293–316.
Published: 01 April 2004
...: Antropología e Historia 6 : 273 -300. Scunio, A. D. 1972 La conquista del Chaco . Buenos Aires: Círculo Militar. Sterpin, A. 1993 L'espace sociale de la prise de scalps chez les Nivaclé du Gran Chaco. Hacia una Nueva Carta Etnica del Gran Chaco 5 : 129 -92. Tebboth, A. 1943 Diccionario...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 541–570.
Published: 01 July 2016
... culture as recorded in drawings and ethnographic field notes. Similar forms include horned headdresses, shield-bearing warriors, heraldic shield designs, weeping eye, scalps on poles, and bear imagery. Several studies have attempted to link rock art in the northwestern plains/Devil’s Tower region to Kiowa...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2022
... voyageurs were outnumbered at least five to one, and the Dakota, Yankton, and Yanktonai warriors easily overwhelmed them, killing, mutilating, and scalping all the Frenchmen (Burpee 1927 : 211–22, 263–64). Rumors of a Dakota war party prowling Lake of the Woods alarmed La Vérendrye back at Fort Saint...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 567–579.
Published: 01 October 2013
... and forth,
it soon became impossible for Big Robber to overcome the powerful
force of Washakie.
In victory, Washakie was impressed with the bravery of Big Rob-
ber and instead of taking his scalp; he cut out his heart and placed it
on the end of his lance.
During...
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