The lightning stick : arrows, wounds, and Indian legends - Stockel, H. Henrietta, 1938- (Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press, 1995)
Perspectives -- Arrows, arrow medicine, and medicine arrow -- Barbers, basins, and battlefields -- An explorer-surgeon surnames "cow's head" -- Be all that you can be in the ar-r-r-mee, circa 1860 -- The mother of all headaches -- The head: cutting, scraping, drilling, and scalping -- The deadly arrow today.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-125) and index.
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