The scalp with the hair belonging to it, cut or torn from a person's head as a battle trophy (a practice associated with some North American…
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| 释义 | society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > sign of victory > enemy's head, brain, or scalp (5) scalp1601 The scalp with the hair belonging to it, cut or torn from a person's head as a battle trophy (a practice associated with some North American… sculp1743 In early or archaic use: a human scalp. brain ball1841 Irish Mythology the brain of an enemy slain in combat made into a ball by mixing it with lime and preserved as a trophy. shrunken head1875 a severed human head which has been shrunk and preserved (see headshrinking, n. 1); = tsantsa, n. tsantsa1923 A human head shrunk as a trophy by the Jivaros of Ecuador. |
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