Thomas Eidson’s book, adapted as The Missing, features a torture scene where Apaches sew a man into an animal skin and put it over a fire. The animal skin shrinks and suffocates the man inside. Did Indians really do that?

Thomas Eidson’s book, adapted as The Missing, features a torture scene where Apaches sew a man into an animal skin and put it over a fire. The animal skin shrinks and suffocates the man inside. Did Indians really do that? David Fuller Lisbon, Connecticut Noted Indian Wars expert Greg Michno says, “It’s possible, I suppose, but I have not heard of this torture,” adding, “I’d wonder if it would even work; seems that the skin would burn to ashes before it would shrink with enough