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Native American Medicine Bags & Pouches
Created by Montana artist, John Yashinski, our Native American Medicine Bags and Pouches are beautifully hand crafted, beaded, and accented in the genuine Native American styles of the late 1800's. These medicine bags are made with authentic materials and very old beads from the eras they represent.
Please scroll down the page for our entire selection of Native American Medicine Bags and Pouches. For larger, closeup, and additional photos of any bag or pouch, please click on its link or picture below.
|  Crystal Pendant in Hand Wrapped Beaded Deerskin Bag--Red & GreenArkansas quartz crystal, hand-wrapped, beaded, braintan deerhide bag, 19th century trade beads
| | |  ***SOLD*** Northern Plains Native American Old Wool Spot BagRed wool was a common trade material, and this Northern Plains style Native American Spot Bag is made with old blanket wool from the 1930's and hand sewn with a ca 1930's Czech glass bead trim. This particular Native American pouch is called a spot bag because of the pattern of brass tack beads or "spots." The central spot cross is a traditional Native American design signifying the 4 directions of the compass or the 4 seasons.
This Spot Bag is accented by blue ca 1900 Prosser beads on the ties and old brass beads on the strap. It also features old handmade tin cones with dyed horsetail tuffs. The ties and straps are braintan deerhide. The blue beads signify the color of the sky.
Measurements: bag 5" x 7" (10" including decorative tufts). Adjustable strap
| | |  ***SOLD*** Lakota 1880 Beaded Medicine Neck BagThis is a heavily beaded small Native American Medicine bag made in the 1880's Lakota style. It features a beaded "morning star" design in yellow, representing the rising sun in the east. The white beads are Czech ca 1910, the red and green are French beads from the 1970's. The yellow center beads and rare dark cobalt border beads are antique Italian glass ca 1890.
This medicine bag has an adjustable strap accented with small red whiteheart beads. It can easily be worn about the neck or as a pouch. The bag is handcrafted using a braintain deerhide beaded frontal piece and a rawhide bearskin backing. It's accented by handmade tin cone tinklers from the 1930's.
This is a very nice Native American Medicine bag and a real collectors item.
Measurements: Bag itself 2 1/4" w x 2 3/4" l; 4" length including cone tinklers.
| | |  Blackfeet Buffalo Calling Rock Fossil PouchA small stone, which is usually a fossil shell of some kind, is known by the Blackfeet as I-nis'-kim, the buffalo stone. This object, as indicated in some stories, gives its possessor great power with buffalo. The stone is found on the prairie, and the person who succeeds in obtaining one is regarded as very fortunate.
Our Calling Rock Fossil and Pouch was created by Montana artist John Yashinski. This Buffalo Calling Rock is an actual Ammonite (snail) fossil that's 60+ million years old. We don't claim this fossil was actually used by Native Americans as calling rock, but this piece is an accurate representation of a Blackfeet Calling Rock Pouch.
The bag is about 2" wide and 8" in length from the top of the fossil to the bottom of the fringe. It's made of braintan deer hide with aged patina, accented with wool and summertime ermine hide streamers. The fringe is adorned with 19th and 20th century beads.
| | |  Lakota 1880 Native American Hand Strap Medicine BagThis is a beautiful compact size Native American medicine bag with colorful beading and feather accents. It's made with a braintan deerhide frontal piece, moose braintan throat, and painted buffalo rawhide backing. Made in the Lakota 1880's style, this Native American bag features a ca 1900 shell disk hand strap, old stock Czech glass beads, handmade tin cones, and dyed feather fluffs.
The red lines in the bead design represent life timelines, and the green lines signify life in summer. Green is also the color of the south.
Size: pouch 3 1/2" x 2 1/2"; overall length 6 1/2" including feather accents.
| | |  Lakota 1880 Native American Hand Strap Medicine Bag IIThis Lakota 1880's Native American medicine bag displays colorful beading and feather accents. It's made with a braintan deerhide frontal piece topped by a small section of very old ca 1890 English red wool. The backing piece is brown buffalo rawhide with a painted design on the inside.
The frontal beadwork is done with ca 1930 Czech glass beads and accented by an old ca 1900 brass horse tack spot in the center plus handmade tin cones with dyed violet feathers below. The red and blue beads in the design signify various camps in the summer, with blue representing summer season and red as the color of life.
Of special note is the single 1860's dark cobalt blue glass padre bead on the strap.
Size: pouch 3 1/2" x 2 1/2"; overall length 6 1/2" including feather accents
| | |  ***SOLD***Cheyenne 1870's Medicine BagThis Native American Medicine Bag replication is unique in that it features a very nice "compass" cross done with ochre and blue beading and representing the four directions of the compass. The beaded border squares represent past and present camps along the trail.
The bag's backing panel is made from ca 1910 shoe leather. The front panel beads are ca 1880 Italian glass, and the strap features an 1890's French brass bead. Brass cone tinklers decorate the bottom of the bag. Braintan deerhide front panel and straps; ca 1880 thread. Aged patinas. Size: 5 ½” (including cones) x 2” (top) 2 ¾” base.
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