1791 J. Long 35 The dances among the Indians are many and various,..[including] the scalp dance.
1837 W. Irving I. iv. 56 They were now bound homewards, to appease the manes of their comrade..and intended to have scalp-dances and other triumphant rejoicings.
1878 E. B. Tuttle 17 The weird music of the scalp~dance.