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scalp dance Hist. 
See 1929 quotes.
- a1929 That evening the united bands kindled an enormous campfire and with the scalps of the dead flaunting from spear heads danced the scalp dance, re-enacting in pantomime all the episodes of the massacre to the monotonous chant-chant of a recitative relating to the foray.
- 1791 The dances among the Indians ... [include] the scalp dance.
- 1929 In this [Indian] order of things the Scalp Dance was a prime factor. The hair of a dead enemy was the first thing taken, indeed it was not necessary that the enemy be dead, so long as he was unable to resist the mutilation.
- a1929 That evening the united bands kindled an enormous campfire and with the scalps of the dead flaunting from spear heads danced the scalp dance, re-enacting in pantomime all the episodes of the massacre to the monotonous chant-chant of a recitative relating to the foray.