What is "scalpings"

Usage examples of "scalpings".

Some scalpings were simple, others involved ears, eyes, the face, the neck.

Now that I knew about chopped-off fingers and scalpings I took a more extreme view of events.

The inevitable settlement at the fall line of the James River, predictably called 'The Falls', suffered the expected tribulations of trading posts and forts, and anti-British sentiments, revolution, hardships, floggings, scalpings, treaties that didn't work and people dying young.

As the pioneers had smoked their pipes at his father's cabin fire, he had heard many appalling accounts of bloody conflicts with the Indians, of massacres, scalpings, tortures, and captivity.