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Leather Medicine Bag or Pouch: Traditionally, a tribal medicine bag contained personal sacred objects that represented the person who carried it. The bags would contain objects such as leaves, feathers, stones, herbs, and other things that the person considered spiritually signi…

This is a very versatile, easy to make, bag pattern. Several of my dolls have a variation of this bag. Fantasy characters have bags which hang from a waistband, and are embellished with long...

When I was 10 years old or so, my summer camp secret buddy made me a suede medicine bag. It was pretty cool. Then when I was a college freshman in fashion school, I rediscovered that medicine bag. I still thought it was awesome and started wearing it regularly. But in a room full of fashion majors, not without light-hearted ridicule. Someone even bought me crystals as a gag gift! I put them in my medicine bag and kept on wearing it. This year, I came into lots of suede. And suddenly Native…

Many traditions practice the custom of carrying a small pouch as a blessed charm. Learn more about making your own mojos and medicine bags.

Many traditions practice the custom of carrying a small pouch as a blessed charm. Learn more about making your own mojos and medicine bags.

Native American Technology & Art: a topically organized educational web site emphasizing the Eastern Woodlands region, organized into categories of Beadwork, Birds & Feathers, Clay & Pottery, Leather & Clothes, Metalwork, Plants & Trees, Porcupine Quills, Stonework & Tools, Weaving & Cordage, Games & Toys and Food & Recipes. Find simple instructional information about how these materials are used by Natives, and detailed background on the history and development of these kinds of Native…