MEDICINE BAG w/STONES and ARROWHEAD NW-1965 Medicine Bags are used today to increase ones own spirituality and sacred power. This Medicine Bag features a drawstring with beading and an arrowhead charm. Inside are four colored stones and one arrowhead. This bag is large enough to add your own charms, tobacco, feathers or herbs to this collection. Order today and get just what you have been looking for! 4 1/2" x 3 1/2" ov.
• Drawstring Medicine Bag w/beads & charm • 4 colored stones & 1 arrowhead inside • Adjustable Shoulder Strap
THE NATIVE AMERICAN MEDICINE BAG A medicine bag is a traditional North American Indian container for various items of supernatural power. While anyone may have one, usually it would be the medicine man, or shaman, of a tribe who would carry one. As something that holds supernatural items, the medicine bag must also have some power of its own.Medicine items attributed with various supernatural abilities for the bag would often be procured in a tribal custom known as a vision quest. This ceremony includes personal sacrifice: fasting and prayer over several days in a location isolated from the rest of the community. In the Midewiwin traditions, the medicine bag is used to store items of fetishism. The purpose is to make contact with natural spiritual forces that help or guide people to reach their potential. The spirits, or totems, would aid the individual to gather magical items, increase knowledge and aid personal growth.
Typical powers ascribed to medicine bags and their items include increasing hunting abilities, aiding fighting skills, healing allies, hindering enemies and altering the weather. Many warriors carried a bag around the neck. They contained items that would remind the warrior of home, of where he came from.
