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Sanapia, Comanche medicine womanBook 1972 • Jones, David E.
Comanche • North America > Plains and Plateau
This book is an 'ethnographic portrait' of a Comanche Eagle doctor, or medicine woman. The book 'attempts to describe every aspect of Sanapia's role, including detailed accounts of her ritual behavior, her attitude toward her profession, the parapher...