Perhaps you should review the case of Hannah Dustin, with regards to
some of the statements below regarding scalping. Even good reverends
made money scalping Native Americans and selling the scalps to the
authorities.

Daniel B. Davis
Archaeologist Coordinator
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Division of Environmental Analysis
200 Mero Street
Frankfort, KY 40622
(502) 564-7250

-----Original Message-----
From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bob
Skiles
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 8:08 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Scalloped

Jeez! This act was perpetrated by a white man in South Carolina in 1709.
I 
fear some of you may be misreading "Indian trader" as meaning the 
perpetrator may have been a native American. No way! Only white men were

permitted to trade with the Indians.

Scalping was NOT a socially (or legally) acceptable form of punishing 
slaves; flogging was (though beating a slave to death was unacceptable,
and 
illegal, and COULD bring a charge of murder in a rare instance in later 
years, especially if the slave died during the beating ... but on the 
frontier in 1709 ... no one, except perhaps a good-hearted reverend,
would 
raise any real objection to a severe flogging that culminated in death 
several days later).

Instances of scalping BY WHITE MEN were quite rare, even as an
act-of-war in 
retaliation against native warriors after a massacre, the act was still 
looked upon as marking the perpetrator as a barbarian beneath the
contempt 
of the lowest member of society ... a spawn of Satan. A white man
scalping a 
woman (even a native woman) would have been looked upon with greater
horror 
and revulsion even than necrophilia or bestiality ... both of which were

doubtlessly more common than incidences of scalping (if one is to
believe 
the charges and prosecutions, in both church and court records). Can you

imagine how the good reverend would have carried-on if it had been an
act as 
bizarre, horrific, and satanic as necrophilia, bestiality or scalping?

If it were scalping, rather than scalloping, I would expect more
righteous 
outrage from the reverend. His response seems to be one of a
matter-of-fact 
in-passing condemnation of an extremely cruel act of one human against 
another, but not one of condemning a particularly unusual, bizarre, or 
satanic act.

~ Bob Skiles


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "geoff carver" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: Scalloped


> 1676 N. S. Narrat. New-Eng. 14 Laying him for dead, they flead (or 
> skulp'd) his head of skin and hair. 1697 S. SEWALL Diary 13 Sept.
(1878) 
> I. 459 Indians shot and scalped him about noon. (OED)