Scalped Collection

Costumes de Différents Pays, Guerrier de Nootka, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, LF Labrousse
Costumes de Differents Pays, Guerrier de Nootka, c1797

The exultant Indians mutilate the dead body; Passage of the Great Canon of the Colorado, 1875. Creator: A. R Calhoun
The exultant Indians mutilate the dead body; Passage of the Great Canon of the Colorado, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London]

Native American holding up the scalp of his enemy (engraving)
977783 Native American holding up the scalp of his enemy (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Native American holding up the scalp of his enemy)

Native American braves taking the scalps of their enemies (coloured engraving)
3630049 Native American braves taking the scalps of their enemies (coloured engraving) by German School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Native Americans (coloured engraving)
3630061 Native Americans (coloured engraving) by German School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Native Americans.); © Look and Learn

Indien scalpant un ennemi tue (engraving)
3635676 Indien scalpant un ennemi tue (engraving) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Indien scalpant un ennemi tue)

Boone Pursued by Indians
Daniel Boone escaping capture from the Indians, his companion is not so lucky and is scalped

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Scalping: A Haunting Chapter of 19th Century American History - From the chilling image of a Native American triumphantly holding up the scalp of his enemy in an 1853 color lithograph, to the intense duel between Buffalo Bill Cody and Chief Yellow Hand as depicted in "Wild Life on the Plains" (1891), this dark practice was a grim reality of frontier life. The sight of Native American braves taking their enemies' scalps in a colored engraving is a stark reminder of the violence and fear that marked the encounters between European settlers and indigenous peoples. The French phrase "Indien scalpant un ennemi tue" (Indian scalping his dead enemy) encapsulates the brutal nature of this tradition. Meanwhile, in "The Queen of the Pirate Isle," an illustration shows a Native American woman wielding a tomahawk and scalping her victim, highlighting the gender-neutral nature of this gruesome act. Boone's pursuit by Indians, as depicted in another engraving, underscores the constant threat of scalping that settlers faced in the wild, untamed lands of the American frontier.