scalp-dance

With Clum introducing each scene, the Apaches appeared in war paint, naked from the waist up; sang what a reviewer called a “peculiar and monotonous song” around the campfire; were suddenly attacked by white men, who routed them in battle; simulated a council of war; and danced a scalp-dance—even though Clum knew the Apaches almost never scalped their victims.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

With Clum introducing each scene, the Apaches appeared in war paint, naked from the waist up; sang what a reviewer called a “peculiar and monotonous song” around the campfire; were suddenly attacked by white men, who routed them in battle; simulated a council of war; and danced a scalp-dance—even though Clum knew the Apaches almost never scalped their victims.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

Ojibways in his youth; danced the scalp-dance on the present site of

Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas R. J. Creswell

As we partook of those visible symbols of our Saviour's broken body, and shed blood, with this peculiar congregation, so recently accustomed to the war-whoop and the scalp-dance, we freely mingled our tears with theirs.

Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas R. J. Creswell

These gifts having been received with great rejoicing, there followed feasting, powwowing in council, and a scalp-dance, all of which occupied three days and consumed, in good Indian fashion, the provisions which should have helped them to get through the fast approaching winter.

French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson

Great was the rejoicing upon our return; the scalp-dance was performed, feasts prepared in our honor, and I found myself looked upon as a greater brave than ever.

Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman

Out of the night -- out of the intense blackness of the spruce-guarded dark came the wailing howl of the savage scalp-dance.

The Gun-Brand 1921

The traveller came closer to hear the words of the song; and lo! it was a song of the scalp-dance, and in it she spoke the name of the lost Boy Man.

Wigwam Evenings Sioux Folk Tales Retold Elaine Goodale Eastman 1908

The Sangers held a Council and scalp-dance in celebration that night around an outdoor fire.

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

While the tribe was still engaged in the scalp-dance, some one had untied Jack's bands.

Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade 1903