http://www.blueblood.net/2006/07/fuck-you-a-brief-history-of-the-mohawk/ Counterculture Lifestyle Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:43:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.blueblood.net/2006/07/fuck-you-a-brief-history-of-the-mohawk/comment-page-1/#comment-369 Blue Blood Magazine Gothic Punk Deathrock Fandom News Photos Forum » What did you do for Thanksgiving? Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:55:37 +0000 http://www.blueblood.net/2006/07/fuck-you-a-brief-history-of-the-mohawk/#comment-369 [...] 2008 Thanksgiving factoid #1: Hunter Jackson, talented illustrator of GWAR arch-nemesis Techno Destructo fame, tells me that the Indians did not come up with scalping. Europeans actually developed the practice because they placed different sized bounties on the heads of members of different tribes. As different Indian tribes had distinct hairstyles (see Will Judy’s History of the Mohawk), the easiest way for bounty hunters to get paid accurately was for them to bring back scalps. [...] [...] 2008 Thanksgiving factoid #1: Hunter Jackson, talented illustrator of GWAR arch-nemesis Techno Destructo fame, tells me that the Indians did not come up with scalping. Europeans actually developed the practice because they placed different sized bounties on the heads of members of different tribes. As different Indian tribes had distinct hairstyles (see Will Judy’s History of the Mohawk), the easiest way for bounty hunters to get paid accurately was for them to bring back scalps. [...]

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