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A bandolier bag is a Native American shoulder pouch, often beaded. Early examples were made from pelts, twined fabrics, or hide, but beginning in the fur trade era, Native American women stitched bags of imported wool broadcloth, lined with cotton calico and often edged with silk ribbons.
A parfleche is a Native American rawhide container that is embellished by painting, incising, or both. Envelope-shaped parfleches have historically been used to contain items such as household tools or foods, such as dried meat or pemmican. They were commonly made in pairs and hung from saddles. Their designs may have once served as maps. [2]
A medicine bag is usually a small pouch, worn by some Indigenous peoples of the Americas, that contains sacred items. A personal medicine bag may contain objects that symbolize personal well-being and tribal identity. [1] [2] Traditionally, medicine bags are worn under the clothing. [3]
A sacred bundle or a medicine bundle is a wrapped collection of sacred items, held by a designated carrier, used in Indigenous American ceremonial cultures. According to Patricia Deveraux, a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy in Alberta, "These are holy bundles given to us by the Creator to hold our people together...
The "cocoon" design symbolizes spiritual and physical transformation, [1] and the Sioux spirit Yumni, the whirlwind, responsible for the four directions of the world. [ 2 ] Both the moth, which breaks free of its confining cocoon, and the untamable wind, are viewed as spirits impossible to contain.
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A Navajo-style cradleboard A Skolt Sámi mother with her child in a ǩiõtkâm. Cradleboards (Cheyenne: pâhoešestôtse, Northern Sami: gietkka, Skolt Sami: ǩiõtkâm, Inari Sami: kietkâm, Pite Sami: gietkam, Kazakh: бесік, Kyrgyz: бешік) are traditional protective baby-carriers used by many indigenous cultures in North America, throughout northern Scandinavia among the Sámi, and ...