I laid the trophy skull on the table.

Look upon the trophy skulls, and these only a small proportion of the total!

This story line was based on six actual existing Vietnamese trophy skulls that are, in fact, stored in a drawer in Washington.

The archaeological record in Mesoamerica is further complicated by the practice of skull mutilation and modification carried out after the death of the subject, to fashion "trophy skulls" and the like of captives and enemies.

Ceramic artifacts depict imagery of warriors, masked with puma skulls, decapitating their enemies and holding trophy skulls, adorned with belts of human heads with their tongues torn out.

Dillon portrays the traditional approach to death by burying the trophy skull that Rachel brought back from the war.

Her hand crept up unconsciously to caress the trophy skull above her.

Faunal remains included the remains of salt pork, skeletons of rats, and the trophy skulls of deer, complete with antlers.

The figures, relics of the Chipuric people who were confederates of the Chachapoyans, were otherworldly, painted with red condor wings and crowned with trophy skulls, their high, flat faces like Easter Island figures.

During the Vietnam War, some US soldiers again engaged in the taking of "trophy skulls".