Yes the squaws were in charge of torture. When a raiding party brought a captive 18 year old white girl back to camp, the captive had no rights. She was a slave and the squaws made her do the nastiest menial jobs around the camp. She also was a sex slave and any warrior could bang her, any time he felt like it.
A squaw might get jealous because her husband was spending more time with the captive white girl, than with her, and the next morning the squaws held the captive girl down and sliced off one ear. Or staked her down and burned her nose off with hot coals. Then, she was back up on her feet, scraping buffalo hides and carrying firewood all day.
It was a fate worse than death, to be an adult captured by the Comanche.
