I remember seeing a Remington painting of a scout bringing in HEADS, not scalps.
Gives new meaning to the scene in ULZANA’S RAID in which the troops want to bring in either the body or the head of Ulzana.
Maybe they were paid for the entire head so as to make sure the bounty was paid for the correct victim [age and sex?]and not as in the French and Indian War, for any head of hair, which resulted in a lot of scalpings of noncombatants?