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Scalping is a form of trophy-killing most famously utilized by Native Americans in which victims had their hair and upper scalp removed via a tomahawk or similar weapon - often the scalp was kept by the killer as a spoil of war.
[[File:Indian Warrior with Scalp.jpg|thumb|300px|right]]'''Scalping''' is the act of removing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalp scalp], or a portion of the scalp, either from a dead body or another living person. The initial purpose was to provide a trophy of battle or portable proof of a combatant's prowess in war. Eventually, the act became motivated primarily for financial reasons; payment received per scalp acquired.
Scalping is often associated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier frontier] warfare in North America, and was practiced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas Native Americans], colonists, and frontiersmen across centuries of violent conflict during the [[American Indian Wars]]. Some Mexican (''e.g.'', Sonora and Chihuahua) and American territories (''e.g.'', Arizona) paid for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounty_%28reward%29 bounties] for enemy Native American scalps.<span style="font-size:11.199999809265137px;line-height:0px;"> </span>Contrary to popular belief, scalping was far from universal amongst Native Americans.