Often, an enemy that had been killed was scalped.  The murderer used some type of knife to score around the temples, and the hair would be pulled off like a bloody glove. After the scalp was taken, it was dried, and carefully mounted on a special framework.  Eventually, it was hung on a scalp pole, placed in the warrior’s dwelling, in the medicine house, on the warrior’s war-horse, his person or his war-club.  The southeastern tribes preferred to take an arm or a leg instead of a scalp.