War trophies

manuscript compendium from the 13th century

ancient Greek building from Pergamon, today in the Antikensammlung Berlin

thumb|upright=1.35|Karl Bodmer's 1844 [[aquatint Scalp Dance of the Minitarres depicts Siouan Hidatsa people in a scalp dance.]] Scalping is the act of cutting or tearing a part of the human scalp, with hair attached, from the head, and generally occurred in warfare with the scalp being a trophy. Scalp-taking is considered part of the broader cultural practice of the taking and display of human body parts as trophies, and may have developed as an alternative to the taking of human heads, for scalps were easier to take, transport, and preserve for subsequent display. Scalping independently deve

items captured during battle used to commemorate military victories

Austro-Hungarian scout cruiser

Reich University of Strasbourg pseudo-scientific anatomical collection comprised of 86 Jewish victims of Nazi murder; used to promote Nazi racial doctrines

thumb|200px|A Roman tropaeum from the Trajan's Dacian Wars|Dacian Wars ([[Trajan's Column 113 AD), note the tree trunk with arm-like branches and the heaped armor and weapons at its base]] thumb|350px|A Roman tropaeum in process of erection in the presence of male and female captives, detail from the Gemma Augustea, circa 20-30 AD thumb|200px|A fully erected Roman tropaeum with shackled and addorsed seated man and woman Sarmatians|Sarmatian captives (the woman on the right with head resting on hand, perhaps representing the defeated "Sarmatia") tied to base, [[Dupondius from reign of Emperor M

Cup made from a skull

17th century siege cannon in Bangkok, Thailand

Church bells that had been taken by the United States Army from the Philippines

in art and architecture is a real or depicted artistically assembled display of weaponry and other militaria

mutilation during war