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scalp-shirt
Hist.
n.
a ceremonial shirt embellished with scalps taken in battle.
1934
 
On occasions of ceremony the men would wear scalp-shirts of light elk skin, having broad bands of porcupine quill-work embroidery down the arms and across the shoulders. . . .