Native American medicine bags continue to be a popular part of Native life. Historically women were the makers of American Indian pouches. Bags called Parfleche bags, rigid rawhide and soft tanned leather medicine bags were probably the most popular. Leather medicine pouches made with soft deer hide buckskin, elk or buffalo have become the most prevalent among American Indians. Traditional brain tanned bags are made using a special smoke process, labor intensive, they are highly prized.
Some medicine bags are simple pouches while others have a lot of work in their creation. Beaded medicine bags or side bags as they are called feature all types of Indian art and Native designs to please all types of tastes.
Falling into two basic types of bags today, most are classified as a specific bag or a possible bag. One with a distinct purpose such as a carved fetish pouch, medicine bag filled with cedar and sage or a tobacco bag. The second continues to increase in popularity and serves as a personal gathering bag for anything you carry.
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Native American Lakota Parfleche Bag 8x7" -Gold (b39)
Lakota style buffalo hide parfleche possible bag. | | Native American Red Parfleche Bag 8x6" -Lakota (b91)
Native American Lakota style buffalo hide parfleche bag. | | Vintage Lakota Indian Medicine Bag -Antique Beads (51)
This is a decorative hand made brain tan and beaded bag. |
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Native American Lakota Strike-A-Light Bag 5"x5" (sb1)
Lakota style Native brain tan strike-a-light bag. | | Native American Medicine Bag 6x10 -Tigua (b97)
This is a handcrafted leather medicine bag made by the Tigua Indians. | | Lakota Style Buffalo Brain Tan Parfleche Tube 24" (p1)
Native American Buffalo Hide parfleche Tube. |
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Brain Tanned Buffalo Parfleche Tube 24" -Cherokee (p3)
American Indian buffalo hide parfleche tube. | | Native American Parfleche Tube 24" -Buffalo Brain Tan (p2)
Native American buffalo hide parfleche tube. | | Native American Turtle Shell Medicine Bag 6" -Creek (29)
This is an authentic Native American, turtle shell medicine bag. |
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Beaded Deer Skin Leather Medicine Bag 6.5" -Pueblo (302)
Handcrafted deer skin leather medicine bag. | | Large Native American Turtle Shell Bag 7.5" -Creek (30)
This is an authentic Native American, turtle shell medicine bag. | | Native American Turtle Shell Medicine Bag 6" -Creek (34)
This is a decorative hand made turtle shell medicine bag. |
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Native American Turtle Shell Medicine Bag 5" -Shoshone (35)
This is a decorative hand made turtle shell medicine bag. | | Native American Lakota Medicine Bag 12" -Sioux (96)
This is a handcrafted leather Sioux medicine bag with intricate seed beading. | | Native American Deer Skin Medicine Bag 5" -Fox Face (b18)
Handcrafted Native American medicine bag. |
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Native American Pueblo Medicine Bag -Laguna (31)
Hand made deer skin beaded medicine pouch. | | Large Deer Skin & Vintage Trade Cloth Bag 5"x25" -Red (301)
Handcrafted deer skin leather and trade cloth bag for medicine, flute or pipe. | | Buckskin & Fox Skin Medicine Bag 6" (b46)
Hand made deer skin and fox medicine bag. |
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Large Deerskin Fox Face Indian Medicine Bag -Shoshone (47)
This is a hand made Native American deer skin medicine bag. | | Vintage Native American Medicine Bag 4"x5.5" -Sioux (24)
Vintage hand beaded Lakota Sioux Indian medicine bag. | | Native American Side Bag -Medicine Bag 2"x6" (17)
Pueblo Indian medicine bag made of soft leather, beaded and fringed. |
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Native American Spirit Bear Tobacco Bag 10" (b52)
Tsalagi Indian tobacco medicine bag. | | Deer Skin Beaded Medicine Pouch 5" -Thunderbird (b48)
Hand beaded Native American deer skin medicine bag. | | Native American Buffalo Hide Medicine Bag 6" (3)
Native American Lakota buffalo hide medicine pouch. |
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Native American Deer Skin Gathering Bag 10" -Yacqui
Handcrafted of deer skin in a tear drop shape, this bag is beaded and fringed. | | Indian Deer Skin Medicine Bag 9.5" -Thunderbird (12)
Beaded medicine bag made of soft deer skin leather | | Sioux Indian Vintage Medicine Bag 5.5"x4" (b101)
Native American Sioux Indian vintage medicine bag. |
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Native American Elk Tooth Tobacco Bag 8x5 -Tigua (b95)
Handcrafted leather tobacco medicine bag by the Tigua Indians. | | Native American Shoshone Indian Medicine Bag 4.5" (37)
Shoshone Indian medicine bag made of deer skin leather. | | Native American Beaded Medicine Bag 3.5" -Navajo (89)
This is an authentic Native American Navajo beaded medicine bag. |
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Native American Deer Skin Medicine Bag 3.5" -Navajo (303)
This is a decorative hand made deer skin medicine bag. | | Native American Beaded Medicine Bag 4.5" -Laguna (b90)
This is an authentic Native American Laguna Pueblo beaded medicine bag. | | Native American Pueblo Medicine Bag -Star (b40)
Laguna Pueblo Indian deer skin medicine bag. |
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Pueblo Tigua Indian Medicine Pouch 5x2 (27)
This is a handcrafted deer skin medicine bag of the Tigua Indians. | | Native American Medicine Bag 4.5" -Shoshone (23)
Shoshone Indian medicine bag made of soft deer skin leather. | | Yacqui Indian Tobacco Medicine Bag - 5"x5" Antler
Carefully handcrafted of real leather, this bag has a real deer antler medallion on the flap. |
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Laguna Native American Medicine Bag 5.5" -Deerskin (b1)
Laguna Native American handmade medicine bag. | | Pueblo Indian Leather Medicine Bag 3"x5" (b14)
Pueblo Indian leather medicine bag. | | Native American Deer Skin Corn Pouch 5"x2" (b25)
This is a handcrafted deer skin medicine bag of the Tigua Indians. |
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American Indian Deer Skin Corn Meal Pouch (26)
This is a handcrafted deer skin medicine bag of the Tigua Indians. | | Native American Tsaligi Buckskin Medicine Bag 5x5 -Tan (80)
Tsaligi Cherokee medicine bag made of deer skin leather. | | Native Tsaligi Buckskin Medicine Bag 5x5 -Gold (81)
Tsaligi Indian medicine bag made of deer skin leather. |
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Native American Deer Skin Medicine Bag 8"-Thunderbird
Carefully handcrafted beaded soft deer skin leather bag. | | Deer Skin Beaded Pueblo Indian Medicine Bag (13)
Handcrafted Laguna Pueblo Indian medicine bag with hand bead work. | | Tigua Indian Medicine Pouch 5" -Deer Hoof Stitch (42)
Pueblo Indian medicine bag made of deer skin leather. |
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Native American Shoshone Indian Medicine Bag 8" (38)
Shoshone Indian medicine bag made of deer skin leather. | | Native American Beaded Medicine Bag 5" (b92)
This is an authentic Native American fox face medicine bag. | | Native American Tsaligi Indian Medicine Bag 3x6 -Brown (82)
Tsaligi Indian medicine bag made of deer skin leather. |
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Native American Tsaligi Indian Medicine Bag 6" -Gold (83)
Tsaligi Indian medicine bag made of deer skin leather. | | Native American Deer Skin Tsaligi Medicine Bag 6" -Black (6)
Tsaligi eastern band Cherokee deer skin medicine pouch. | | Fringed Deer Skin Medicine Bag -Black Buckskin (305)
This is a hand made Native style buck skin leather medicine bag. |
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Native American Leather Medicine Bag 2.5" -Deer Hoof (304)
This is a decorative hand made deer skin medicine bag. | | Native American Pueblo Indian Possible Bag 7x16 (b50)
This is an authentic Pueblo Indian possible bag. | | American Indian Beaded Medicine Pouch 7x15" -Tigua (98)
This is a Tigua Indian beaded medicine pouch. |
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American Indian Pueblo Medicine Bag 6" (43)
Tigua Indian deer skin leather medicine bag. | | Shoshone Indian Medicine Bag 4.5" -Gold Buckskin (306)
This is a hand made Shoshone buck skin medicine bag. | | Native American Shoshone Medicine Bag 5.5"x7.5" (b93)
Authentic metal coned Native American Shoshone medicine bag. |
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Native American Beaded Medicine Bag 5.5" -Pueblo (94)
This is an authentic Native American beaded medicine bag. | | Tigua Indian Medicine Pouch 2x3 -Sage Filled (44)
This is a hand made Native style deer skin leather medicine pouch. | | Cherokee Indian Deer Skin Medicine Pouch -Wolf (8)
Handcrafted Cherokee deer skin, medicine bag. 2"x3" |
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Native American Cherokee Medicine Pouch -Lizard (b53)
This is an authentic Native American Cherokee deer skin pouch. | | Cherokee Indian Medicine Pouch 2x3 -Eagle (b300)
Handcrafted Cherokee deer skin medicine pouch. | | Shoshone Indian Brain Tanned Medicine Pouch 4" (36)
Shoshone Indian medicine pouch made of brain tan deer skin leather. |
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Pueblo Indian Sage Medicine Pouch 1"x2" (49)
This is a hand made Pueblo Indian deer skin leather medicine bag filled with sage. | | Native Snake Skin Medicine Bag & Belt 5.75" (b22)
This is a decorative snake skin medicine bag. | | Native American Suede Deer Skin Sage Pouch (19)
This is a handcrafted cedar and sage medicine bag from the famous Tigua Indians. |
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American Pueblo Indian Deer Skin Medicine Pouch 6" (20)
This is a handcrafted medicine bag from the famous Tigua Indians. | | Pueblo Indian Deer Skin Sage Pouch (21)
This is a handcrafted cedar and sage medicine bag from the famous Tigua Indians. | | Indian Hour Glass Medicine Bag 3x5
Handcrafted deer skin leather bag made in the shape of an hour glass with twisted leather strap. |
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Deer Skin Beaded Medicine Bag 4" -Saddle (15)
This is a decorative Navajo hand made beaded medicine bag. | | Sedona Red Rock Medicine Pouch -Cherokee (28)
This bag has a small piece of the actual red rock from Sedona, Arizona inside. | | Sedona Red Rock Medicine Pouch 2" -Cherokee
Sedona medicine bag with a red rock inside. |
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American Indian Deer Skin Medicine Pouch -Red Rock (b32)
This is a deer skin medicine bag with Sedona red rock. | | Rabbit Skin Medicine Bag 3.5x3 (45)
This is a hand made Native style deer skin leather medicine bag. | | Native American Navajo Indian Medicine Pouch 3" -Tan (84)
Navajo Indian medicine bag made of deer skin leather. |
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Native American Navajo Indian Medicine Pouch 3.75" -Gold (85)
Navajo Indian medicine bag made of deer skin leather. | | Native American Medicine Pouch 3.5" -Apache (y2)
Apache Indian deer skin medicine pouch. | | Native American Deer Skin Medicine Pouch 2.75" (y3)
Authentic Native American Navajo deer skin medicine pouch. |
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Tarahumara Indian Yarn Doll Bag 12"x15" (y1)
Carefully hand woven tarahumara bag with yarn doll flap. | | Native American Leather Medicine Bag 2.5" -Bear Paw (y4)
Handcrafted Indian leather medicine pouch. | | Deer Skin Fetish Medicine Bag 2"x2" -Turtle
This is a hand made deer skin medicine bag. |
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Andean Indian Gourd Medicine Pouch 3.25" (16)
This is a decorative hand etched gourd medicine bag. | | Native American Deer Skin Medicine Pouch -Tobacco (33)
This is a Tigua Indian deer skin medicine pouch. | | Native American Medicine Pouch -Gold Deer Skin (99)
This is a Navajo Indian deer skin medicine pouch. |
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Native American Deer Skin Medicine Pouch -Ivory (100)
This is a Shoshone Indian deer skin medicine pouch. | | Hand Stitched Mini Cowhide Leather Purse 4x3.5" (y5)
Carefully hand stitched mini leather purse. |
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