I helped perform a trephination with our tribe’s head shaman, Anchanchu. The man we performed it on was experiencing terrible pain since he was a young man. I believe he may have been dropped as a child or possibly attacked. Whatever the cause, it has been a burden to him and he has decided to trust us with his cranium. There is a fifty percent chance he will die, but the pain is no longer tolerable. We started the operation by sterilizing the tools over a flame. We proceeded by using the scalpel to make an incision in the scalp to see the skull. This procedure was dangerous and I was nervous because it was only the second one I have performed. I grab the saw and passed it to Anchanchu and let him do the work from that point. He began to saw
