This picture is of the healings that Cabeza de Vaca was forced to preform while staying in the Native American village. This picture while it does seem to be very gruesome and painful to the person being healed seems to be very accurate. Cabeza de Vaca is currently cutting the wound open so that he can suck the poison, cauterize it, and blow on it so that he can heal the person. The person in the back holding the cross could be inaccurate, but there was no dismention of the cross in the journal so there could of been someone doing so.
Maybe the cross represented the fact that they also prayed over the sick. Good picture find!
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