scaup

ot noun

1. A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory. Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
2. The top of the head; the skull.
3. The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
4. The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.