scalp-locks

And then I suppose you will wear human scalp-locks at your waist, as well -- as you, Edwin, who are the gentlest of my grandsons, have already begun with that vile pigtail.

Page 9 2010

They were coming in from all parts of the Red Sands, and beyond, from as far as the Black Sands below Khiva, and Zarafshan and the Bokhara border - Uzbeks with their flat yellow faces and scalp-locks, lean, swarthy Tajiks and slit-eyed Mongols, terrible-looking folk with their long swords and bandy legs - until there must have been close on five thousand riders in that valley alone.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

The night of August 1, wearing their white and green and yellow war paint, their warbonnets, their feathers in scalp-locks, the warriors moved like dark shadows across the rough country north of the Big Piney.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

Two hundred boats were launched on the Dnieper, and Asia Minor saw those who manned them, with their shaven heads and long scalp-locks, devote her thriving shores to fire and sword; she saw the turbans of her

Taras Bulba 2003

The old chief and a few of the older men who were weak with the paddle were in their newest buckskins, wore black-tipped eagle feathers on their scalp-locks, and hung beaded and bear-claw necklaces about their necks.

In the Name of His Ancestor 1996

Long scalp-locks, decorated with colorful feathers, bounced on their backs as they loped easily over the sand dunes.

Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995

Two hundred boats were launched on the Dnieper, and Asia Minor saw those who manned them, with their shaven heads and long scalp-locks, devote her thriving shores to fire and sword, she saw the turbans of her Mahometan inhabitants strewn, like her innumerable flowers! over the blood-besprinkled fields, and floating along her river banks; she saw many tarry Zaporozhian trousers, and strong hands with black hunting-whips.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

The limbs were encased in leggings of dressed fawn skin, ornamented along the seams with a fringe of scalp-locks; a guarantee of his personal bravery.

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

Many a day had his wife spent embroidering this robe with porcupine quills and trimming it with fringes of his enemies scalp-locks.

Timid Hare Mary Hazelton Wade

On his robe were pictured the many battles in which he had taken part; it was trimmed with a heavy fringe of scalp-locks.

Timid Hare Mary Hazelton Wade