Indian Wars -- Texas
Arrow impacted in the Tranverse [sic] Process of the Fourth Dorsal Vertebra. Army Medical Museum, ca 1869.

7 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. albumen photograph on 10 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. cardstock mount. Verso bears applied paper label and handstamp from the Surgeon General's Office, Army Medical Museum, providing context for the photograph:

"This specimen was taken from the body of a white man who was killed by Indians in 1869, at an out-post near Fort Concho, Texas. There were extracted from his lungs and heart no less than four arrow-heads, and a fifth was impacted at the junction of the rib with the right transverse process of the fourth dorsal vertebra. Its position is shown in the specimen numbered 5673 of the Surgical Section, which was contributed to the Army Medical Museum, with the history, by Assistant Surgeon W. M. Notson, U. S. A."

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Toning, spotting to print. Mount with toning, discoloration, and some chipping to corners.

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Indian Wars -- Texas
Arrow impacted in the Tranverse [sic] Process of the Fourth Dorsal Vertebra. Army Medical Museum, ca 1869.

Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection

Indian Wars -- TexasArrow impacted in the Tranverse [sic] Process of the Fourth Dorsal Vertebra. Army Medical Museum, ca 1869.

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Indian Wars -- Texas
Arrow impacted in the Tranverse [sic] Process of the Fourth Dorsal Vertebra. Army Medical Museum, ca 1869.