The Big Sky1952

Boone Cardell:
Why did she want to grab this?

Zeb Calloway:
That's a Blackfoot scalp you got, and she knows it. Ain't you ever thought of why an injun takes a scalp?

Jim Deakins:
Why?

Zeb Calloway:
To shame an enemy. The way she figures it, there's a Blackfoot brave somewhere who can't show his face to the hereafter until that thing is buried under the ground.